however, Anne Sexton uses poetry to express her emotions. After the birth of her second child Sexton suffered a mental break down. In “Her Kind” Sexton describes how she feels isolated from the world. She refers to herself as a possessed witch whose warm caves lay in the woods. Sexton uses analogy to express her house as the warm cave in the woods. This type of metaphor expressed how sexton feels about herself compared to society. Throughout the poem see uses repetation of I have been her kind. Meaning
Confessional poetry is a style that emerged in the late 1950’s. Poetry of this type tends to be very personal and emotional. Many confessional poets dealt with subject matter that had previously been taboo. Death, trauma, mental illness, sexuality, and numerous other topics flowed through the works of the poetry from this movement. Confessional poetry was not purely autobiographical, but did often express deeply disturbing personal experience. (Academy of American Poets) Three important
Confessional poets in the 1950’s and 1960’s shaped confessional poetry into a type of writing that forever changed American literature. With controversial subjects at the time such as death, trauma, depression and how relationships impacted people, confessional poetry carved a gateway for private subjects and feelings to be expressed through autobiographical writing. The inspiration behind confessional poetry was the therapy it brought to the writer, being able to take personal experiences and thoughts
Imagery in Frost's Acquainted with the Night and Sexton 's Her Kind In order to maximize meaning and overall total effect of a piece of work, writers use various literary devices. These techniques enhance the author's work and add a dimension that results in higher reader satisfaction. Throughout the poems I have read this quarter thus far, I have discovered the use of imagery as a prominent source of literary embellishment. In particular the image of night is used
culturally symbolic” ( Rosanthal , 80 qted in Lynn p 43) . Anne Sexton (1928–1974) is one of the major American poets who had successfully achieved that sense of “fusion” while handling themes and issues that were perceived, at that time, as social taboos. Sexton’s epoch-echoing poem, “Her Kind” published in 1960, explores the poet’s personal struggle and quest for identity in a patriarchal society while reflecting the oppression of the women of her age, a forbidden and challenging theme in nineteenth
with each other to see who is prettier, or who gets more attention from men. Students can learn connotations and themes about the different ways women are being affected by the mass media, society, and their parents by reading "Cinderella " by Anne Sexton, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates, and ''Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid. First of all, teen girls are victimized by the media. Teen girls within society are obsessed with their physical appearance. They do what it takes
good novel or familiarizing yourself with the latest celebrity gossip, reading also drives the act of writing itself, from the earliest stages onward. Reading can and will make you a better writer” (Sullivan, 2016). “The Starry Night” By: Anne Sexton The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die. It moves. They are all alive
“Housewife” by Anne Sexton conveys the themes of love, marriage, and relationships by using the poetic techniques of imagery, personification, and tone. The imagery portrayed throughout this poem conveys how women who are married are also married to their house. The title of this poem creates this image of what a “Housewife” is. The house is personified with humanistic qualities and the poem contains sexual references that connect the roles of living as a housewife. In this poem, women are portrayed
meaning of Anne Sexton’s poem, “Her Kind,” which is communicated through gripping diction, imagery, refrain, and form. But do not worry; I will guide you through Sexton’s poem by explicating it line by line. While flipping through pages of poetry, Sexton’s poem gripped me by the shoulders, sucked me into the page, and enveloped me with its words, yet still I did not know exactly what struck me. The first read-through, I merely listened to Sexton’s powerful diction and was intrigued by her refrain,
still lives. She is the author of books which are in some parts related to her personal experiences. She worked as a free-lance editor and proof reader until an introduction to an agent set her career in motion. Her novels: The novel that caught the agent's attention, Asa, As I Knew Him, was published in 1987 and people were very interested in it. Kaysen followed up the success of her first book three years later with her second novel, Far Afield. Kaysen's third and as far as I know last book, Girl