Anne Sexton's Poem 'Her Kind'

Anne Bradstreet's poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, shows her profound love and undying affection for her husband. For a Puritan woman who is supposed to be reserved, Bradstreet makes it her obligation to enlighten her husband of her devotion. She conveys this message through her figurative language and declarative tone by using imagery, repetition, and paradoxes.

Anne Bradstreet, a well-educated woman, strong in her Puritan beliefs, captured her thoughts by writing poetry, which included works such as “Contemplations” which was preceded by “The Prologue”. Written in the mid 1600’s as the colonies were beginning to form, Bradstreet’s poem included themes of religion, nature, and family. Although she claims to have written them without the intent of publication, a collection of her poetry was printed in 1650. She identifies her struggles with faith, yet writes from the view of a faithful woman who recognizes the superior role of men in her society. Although appearing to be modest and undermining her talents, it seems evident that Bradstreet was, in reality, confident that as a well educated women she was capable of writing just as well as a man. Although it is claimed that Anne Bradstreet did not intend for her writing to be published, her poetry utilizes a feminist tone and theme of higher education conveying her hidden desires to prove herself as a female author.

During this scene, Anne confessed that she had a nice side, but she was scared to show it. She would be nice, but she did not know what people would think about her. I think this is a big act of kindness because when you dig deeper and read on, you can find that she told Mr.Frank that the mean Anne comes out and the nice Anne stays on the inside. This shows how hard she has tried and nothing would work, she was kind hearted and felt differently

Anne Bradstreet was America's first noteworthy poet in spite of the fact that she was a woman. Both the daughter and wife of Massachusetts governors, Bradstreet suffered all of the hardships of colonial life, was a mother, and still found time to write. Her poem, "The Author to Her Book," is an example of Bradstreet's excellent use of literary techniques while expressing genuine emotion and using domestic subject matter.

After reading this poem, I immediately identified the voice of Mistress Bradstreet in the topic. Anne, preparing for the possibility of death during childbirth, writes a farewell poem to her husband. Along with stating her farewells, Anne makes a few request for her husband. One of the request Anne writes is for her husband to continue to love her, even after the grief of her passing is gone. Her second request comes from complete and utter selflessness, “The many faults that well you know I have let be interred in my oblivious grave.” In translation, Anne would like for her mistakes, misfortune, and any unsatisfactory features to pass away and not burden her husband (15-16). I can only hope I will be at least half the wife Anne is in her poetry. Anne’s final requests is for her husband to protect their children from a wicked step mother. The more I read this poem, the more respect I have for Anne Bradstreet. Anne addresses the idea of her husband marrying another woman and instead of being jealous or selfish, she thinks of her children 's quality of life. A family needs a mother, and Anne acknowledging that fact proves that this is

Anne Sexton was a poet and a woman, but most importantly, she was an outcast. Subjected to nervous breakdowns and admitted to a neuropsychiatry hospital, Sexton must have been all too familiar with the staring eyes and the judging minds of the public. Just being a woman in today's world often can be enough to degrade a person in the public's eye, let alone being labeled as a crazy woman. But Anne Sexton did not let society remain unchallenged in its views. She voiced a different opinion of women through poetry. In Anne Sexton's "Her Kind" the speaker of the poem embraces society's negative stereotype of modern, liberated women and transforms it into a positive image. Two voices, the voice of

In “Wanting To Die”, Anne Sexton illustrates vividly an analogy that compares one’s desire to commit suicide and drug addiction. Though this poem may initially seem to revolve around the themes of death and suicide, there are several examples in the poem that can be referenced to drug addiction and the intentions of the drug user. In general, the tone of this poem is luridly depressing as it produces an imagery that is painstakingly dark and morbid. It encapsulates the reader within the mind of the suicidal thinker through specific personifications of suicide and death. Sexton also utilizes metaphors and similes in this poem to describe how suicide conducts a mind of its own which engages in

Anne Sexton’s Her Kind and For John Who Begs Me Not To Enquire Further are very similar, but also have key differences that make each poem emotionally and visually unique. Both poems use intense imagery to portray the emotions that Anne Sexton felt in that moment. Anne Sexton also uses the tones of each poem to interpret a sense of story in a way the reader can both relate and realize the awareness that Anne Sexton is trying to convey. Her Kind and For John Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further are very similar when it comes to connecting and relating their tone, imagery, and sense of story towards the reader, but the types of imagery, tone, and sense of story are very different.

The poem “Her Kind” by Anne Sexton describes different scenarios of a woman. In the poem, Anne Sexton uses three different characters to explain that she has been each of them in some way. Society places a gender role on what women are allowed to be and how they should behave, condemning the women who do not conform, trying to change them into society’s perfect view of what a woman should be. While this poem shows the author describing herself in terms of the supernatural, it ultimately shows that rebellion against societal norms for women comes at a cost, sparking judgement from a society that sees women as common housewives. Her imagery in the poem represents how she is seen as a disfigured and

I choose for my reseach essay assignment the poem " In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659" by Anne Bradstreet as the earliest Native American writing, and the first in a long line of American poets who took their consolation not from thealogy , but from the " wondrous works", as she wrote, " that I see, the vast frame of the heaven and the earth, the order of all things." In Anne works, we see the writing prolifically in poetry form, and she deliver a great massage and moral for her religious values, for her family and her children as well. The family and the life in the Puritan believe of Anne are the stronger point of relationship she created in her writting and made her intresting in the social society of America in 1650-1660.

Anne Sexton’s poetry was stark, unrestrained and personal, compared to the traditional. It captivated her readers with its real, unique sense of style. The poems spoke of intimate, deep experiences. Anne Sexton’s poetry delves into mental illness and death by using imagery, diction and free verse to convey isolation, depression and the search for identity.

To begin her dissection of society’s almost degrading cliché’s of how a woman should act, Sexton begins “Her Kind” by writing about the witch stereotype, by using two voices, the speaker’s voice and Sexton’s. Sexton begins the first stanza, by writing about a witch who only comes out at night. She writes, “Haunting the black air, braver the night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch.” (445: Line 2-3). The being that Sexton is depicting is of the supernatural form as she only comes out at night because she feels that she can best express herself at night. Sexton also writes, “Lonely thing, twelve fingered, out of mind” (445: Line 5). A witch that has twelve fingers is bound to be cast out, by society because of her abnormality. The dark and gothic tone the speaker uses in this stanza such as: possessed, haunting, black, evil, lonely, twelve fingered, out of mind, creates an escape for the speaker who is obviously different from the rest of the world. She feels safe from the judgmental eyes of suburbia, she feels safer to express herself at night.

The history surrounding Anne’s poetry is of a time where Puritans ruled. When looking at her works with historicism, one can understand how she influenced history majorly. Anne’s writings did not reflect many Puritan ideals of that time in history. One of Anne’s famous poems To My Dear and Loving Husband directly defies Puritan views on marriage. Puritans believed that you should love your spouse a lot, but not more than God. They believed you should always love God the most and put him first. The way Anne writes about her husband in the poem she speaks of him as the thing she loves most. She just briefly mentions God, instead of focusing the majority of her poem on him. The love between a husband and wife was supposed to be something private according to the Puritans. With this poem, Anne was broadcasting her love for her

In Anne Sexton’s poem “The Abortion”, she uses literary devices to reflect her heart wrenching decision of whether or not to abort one of her children, which reflects the style of confessional poetry because she is sharing her personal feelings and experiences. Anne Sexton was a famous poet of confessional poetry, where the poets write about their private experiences with feelings about death, trauma, and depression in their lives. Anne Sexton wrote from the point of view of an upper middle class woman. She had two children, and the stress of having them, gave her life long depression. Sexton was sent to a psychiatric hospital after the birth of her second child. “The Abortion” displays all of Sexton’s feelings that she has about her abortion.

17th century Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet uses a myriad of poetic devices, mainly metaphor and irony, to express the themes of her poetry in nearly every one of her works. For example, she uses irony subtly to imply that women should get credit for their work and not be looked down upon for doing things other than cooking and cleaning. With a little work, careful eyes will find that Anne Bradstreet did not have a submissive personality at all, which can be seen through the sarcastic method of writing she employs in The Prologue and the pre-feminist metaphors she writes in The Author to her Book.