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| anne sexton her kind analysis: Transformations Anne Sexton, 2016-04-05 Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as poems infused with contemporary references, feminist ideals, and morbid humor. Grounded by nods to the ordinary—a witch’s blood “began to boil up/like Coca-Cola” and Snow White’s bodice is “as tight as an Ace bandage”—Sexton brings the stories out of the realm of the fantastical and into the everyday world. Stripping away their magical sheen, she exposes the flawed notions of family, gender, and morality within the stories that continue to pervade our collective psyche. Sexton is especially critical of what follows these tales’ happily-ever-after endings, noting that Cinderella never has to face the mundane struggles of marriage and growing old, such as “diapers and dust,” “telling the same story twice,” or “getting a middle-aged spread,” and that after being awakened Sleeping Beauty would likely be plagued by insomnia, taking “knock-out drops” behind the prince’s back. Deconstructed into vivid, visceral, and often highly amusing poems, these fairy tales reflect themes that have long fascinated Sexton—the claustrophobic anxiety of domestic life, the limited role of women in society, and a psychological strife more dangerous than any wicked witch or poisoned apple. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: To Bedlam and Part Way Back Anne Sexton, 1960 In part three of Alice's adventure through the stacks, she has learned much on her journey. She takes a moment to ponder the meaning of words. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: An Accident of Hope Dawn M. Skorczewski, 2012-04-27 In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her confessional poems dealing with personal subjects not often represented in poetry at that time: mental illness, depression, suicide, sex, abortion, women's bodies, and the ordinary lives of mothers and housewives. Orne audiotaped the last three years of her therapy to facilitate her ability to remember their sessions. The final six months of these tapes are the focus of this book. In An Accident of Hope, Dawn Skorczewski links the content of the therapy with poetry excerpts, offering a rare perspective on the artist's experience and creative process. We can see Sexton attempting to make sense of her life and therapy and to sustain her confidence as a major poet, while struggling with the impending loss of Orne, who was moving elsewhere. Skorczewski's study provides an intimate, in-depth view of the therapy of a psychologically tortured yet immensely creative woman, during a period of emerging feminism and cultural change. Tracing the mutual development of the poet and the therapist during their years together, the author explores the tension between the classical therapeutic setting as practiced in the early 1960s and contemporary relational and developmental concepts in psychoanalysis, just then beginning to emerge. An Accident of Hope also raises broader questions about the nature of healing in psychotherapy. The poet and therapist we encounter in these sessions present complex and conflicted images of the therapeutic and creative process. Orne, equal parts honesty and hesitancy, works to bolster Sexton's self-image and maintain that she is more than the sum of her poetry. Sexton, working against a tendency to hide from her most painful feelings, valiantly pushes to tell the truth in therapy, while her poems invite the readers to see another side of the story. Just as Orne kept the audiotapes so that one day they might help others who suffer, An Accident of Hope tells the story of a therapy but moves beyond it. By offering a glimpse into the past, the present is open for reappraisal, both of Sexton herself and the legacy of psychoanalytic treatment. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: No Evil Star Anne Sexton, 1985 Collects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poet |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Death Notebooks Anne Sexton, 1974 |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Awful Rowing Toward God Anne Sexton, 1975 In this powerful new collection, one of our most dazzlingly inventive and prolific poets tackles a universal theme: the agonizing search for God that is part and parcel of the livse of all of us. As always, Anne Sexton's latest work derives from intense personal experience. She explores the dilemmas and triumphs, and the agony and the peace of her highly unorthodox faith, sharing all her findings with her readers as the quest progresses. Anne Sexton's poetry speaks to our most passionate yearnings for love and our deepest fears of evil and death. The uncompromising honesty and vividness of The Awful Rowing Toward God confirms her stature as one of the most compelling voices of our time. -- From publisher's description. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz Gail Crowther, 2022-01-11 A dual biography of poets, friends, and rivals Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton-- |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Searching for Mercy Street Linda Gray Sexton, 2011-04-10 New York Times Notable Book: A “beautifully written” memoir by the daughter of the brilliant, troubled poet (Detroit Free Press). This is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty–one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s life. Growing up with Anne Sexton was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine—and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood. “Sexton forcefully communicates the fear, repulsion, neediness, and sorrow that filled her childhood, as well as the agony of her own mental breakdown and her terror of becoming like her mother, in lucid and vivid prose.” —The Boston Globe “A candid, often painful depiction of a daughter’s struggles to come to terms with her powerful and emotionally troubled mother.” —The New York Times |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: All My Pretty Ones Anne Sexton, 1962 A gifted poet reveals the poignancy and plaintive charm of common experiences. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Book of Nightmares Galway Kinnell, 1971 A book-length poem evokes the horror, anguish, and brutality of 20th century history. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: If All the World and Love Were Young Stephen Sexton, 2024-02 In Stephen Sexton' s remarkable debut, the video games of his childhood are once again a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in two places at once; to be two people at once. In these poems about the death of his mother, Sexton charts the familiar levels of Super Mario World, whose flowered landscapes bleed into our world-- and ours, strange with loss, bleed into it. This moving, otherworldly narrative is a daring exploration of memory, grief, and the necessity of the unreal. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Briar Rose Jane Yolen, 2002-03-15 An American journalist is trapped in Nazi Germany in this variation on the Sleeping Beauty theme. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic , 2020-01-13 Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic, edited by Lydia Brugué and Auba Llompart, studies the impact of fairy tales on contemporary cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on how literature and film are retelling classic fairy tales for modern audiences. We are currently witnessing a resurgence of fairy tales and fairy-tale characters and motifs in art and popular culture, as well as an increasing and renewed interest in reinventing and subverting these narratives to adapt them to the expectations and needs of the contemporary public. The collected essays also observe how the influence of academic disciplines like Gender Studies and current literary and cinematic trends play an important part in the revision of fairy-tale plots, characters and themes. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Mercy Street Anne Sexton, 2013-05-13 MERCY STREET is Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton's only play and incorporates many of the themes that infuse her poetry, the deeply personal, the nature of madness, and the subjectivity of truth. Anne Sexton, a fine poet with an astounding knack for incorporating the ugly and immediate vocabulary of the pressing workaday world into lyrics that nevertheless remain lyrics, is the author of MERCY STREET ... The play is constructed quite literally to resemble the Offertory in Anglican or Roman Catholic mass ... Miss Sexton's initial use of ritual is striking ... The exploration, in rotating flashbacks, produces some riveting line-images ... -Walter Kerr, The New York Times ... This is Miss Sexton's first play. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and the tone of her poems has always been laceratingly personal. In some she seemed like a latter-day, neurotic Emily Dickinson. The poems have a voice of their own, and a way with imagery. MERCY STREET is the story of a woman searching her way home from the valley of madness ... Miss Sexton has written a play to be considered rather than dismissed ... -Clive Barnes, The New York Times |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Simulacra Airea D. Matthews, Carl Phillips, 2017-01-01 Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation, striving and thwarting, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book rollicking, destabilizing, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant. This is poetry that breaks new literary ground, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the world. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Dash Linda Ellis, 2012-04-16 When your life is over, everything you did will be represented by a single dash between two dates—what will that dash mean for the people you have known and loved? As Joseph Epstein once said, “We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth. We do not, most of us, choose to die. . . . But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.” And that is what The Dash is all about. Beginning with an inspiring poem by Linda Ellis titled “The Dash,” renowned author Mac Anderson then applies his own signature commentary on how the poem motivates us to make certain choices in our lives—choices to ignore the calls of selfishness and instead reach out to others, using our God-given abilities to brighten their days and lighten their loads. After all, at the end of life, how we will be remembered—whether our dash represents a full, joyous life of seeking God’s glory, or merely the space between birth and death—will be entirely up to the people we’ve left behind, the lives we’ve changed. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Dark Traffic Joan Naviyuk Kane, 2021-09-14 Dark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them. With fine detail and observation, these poems work in some way like poetic weirs: readers of Kane’s work will see the arctic and subarctic, but also, more broadly, America, and the exigencies of motherhood, indigenous experience, feminism, and climate crises alongside the near-necropastoral of misogyny, violence, and systemic failures. These contexts catch the voice of the poems’ speakers, and we perceive the currents they create. Excerpt from “Dark Traffic” Consolation may turn out to be a guttural practice, after all, the small gesture of sound lodged deep before it glides without warning downward. There is nothing but the wind, a howl and dive where water is thrown over water and sown into it. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Witch in History Diane Purkiss, 2003-09-02 'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Equivalents Maggie Doherty, 2021-04-13 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships—poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Marianna Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen—quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves “the Equivalents.” Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation. “Rich and powerful. . . . A love story about art and female friendship.” —Harper’s Magazine “Reads like a novel, and an intense one at that. . . . The Equivalents is an observant, thoughtful and energetic account.” —Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) |
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| anne sexton her kind analysis: My Heart Laid Bare Joyce Carol Oates, 2015-04-07 New York Times Bestselling Author Finally returned to print in a beautiful trade paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists—a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability “Oates . . . rarely falters throughout this epic. . . . An American tragedy.”—People “My Heart Laid Bare shows Oates at her most playful, extravagant and inventive.”—The San Francisco Chronicle The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate. As Abraham moves his family from town to town, involving them in more and more complex and impressive schemes, he finds himself caught between the specter of Sarah and the growing terrors of his present. As his carefully crafted lies and schemes begin to fracture and disintegrate before his eyes, Abraham discovers that the bond of family is as tenuous and treacherous as the tricks he perpetrates upon unsuspecting strangers. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Homesick Jean Fritz, 2007-03-01 A Newbery Honor book! Jean Fritz’s award-winning account of her life in China, and to honor this story, it is only fitting that it be added to our prestigious line of Puffin Modern Classics. This fictionalized autobiography tells the heartwarming story of a little girl growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying their childhood in America, Jean Fritz was in China in the midst of political unrest. Jean Fritz tells her captivating story of the difficulties of living in a unfamiliar country at such a difficult time. * A remarkable blend of truth and storytelling. —Booklist, starred review * An insightful memory's-eye-view of her childhood . . . Young Jean is a strong character, and many of her reactions to people and events are timeless and universal. —School Library Journal, starred review Told with an abundance of humor—sometimes wry, sometimes mischievous and irreverent—the story is vibrant with atmosphere, personalities, and a palpable sense of place. —The Horn Book Every now and then a book comes along that makes me want to send a valentine to its author. Homesick is such a book . . . Pungent and delicious. —Katherine Paterson, The Washington Post |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton Anne Sexton, 2000 A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley, 2020-07-31 Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin and Greek classics from the age of twelve. Encouraged by the progressive Wheatleys who recognised her incredible literary talent, she wrote To the University of Cambridge” when she was 14 and by 20 had found patronage in the form of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon. Her works garnered acclaim in both England and the colonies and she became the first African American to make a living as a poet. This volume contains a collection of Wheatley's best poetry, including the titular poem “Being Brought from Africa to America”. Contents include: “Phillis Wheatley”, “Phillis Wheatley by Benjamin Brawley”, “To Maecenas”, “On Virtue”, “To the University of Cambridge”, “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell”, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield”, etc. Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry with a specially-commissioned biography of the author. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Goldenrod Maggie Smith, 2021-07-27 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR ??“To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment.” —Time “A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet.” —People From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Keep Moving, and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life. With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her “meditations on kindness and hope” (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life—a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son’s pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road—she reveals the magic of the present moment. Only Maggie Smith could turn an autocorrect mistake into a line of poetry, musing that her phone “doesn’t observe / the high holidays, autocorrecting / shana tova to shaman tobacco, / Rosh Hashanah to rose has hands.” Slate called Smith’s “superpower as a writer” her “ability to find the perfect concrete metaphor for inchoate human emotions and explore it with empathy and honesty.” The poems in Goldenrod celebrate the contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is beautiful. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Patricia Smith, 2013-11-18 Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith’s new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is just beautiful—and like the America she embodies and represents—dangerously beautiful. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah is a stunning and transcendent work of art, despite, and perhaps because of, its pain. This book shines. —Sapphire One of the best poets around and has been for a long time. —Terrance Hayes Smith's work is direct, colloquial, inclusive, adventuresome. —Gwendolyn Brooks In her newest collection, Patricia Smith explores the second wave of the Great Migration. Shifting from spoken word to free verse to traditional forms, she reveals that soul beneath the vinyl. Patricia Smith is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection. She lives in New Jersey. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems Kim Addonizio, 2021-03-16 A dark, no-holds-barred, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between the poles of self and world. Kim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, Outlander, semiotics, and more. Combatting existential gloom with a wicked, seductive energy, Addonizio investigates desire, loss, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats, echoes Dorothy Parker, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. Sometimes confessional, sometimes philosophical, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels, a wolf at an uncomfortable party, a glowing and self-serious guitar. A poet whose “voice lifts from the page, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez, San Francisco Book Review), Addonizio reminds her reader, if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Long Approach Maxine Kumin, 1986 In her first collection since 1982, this Pulizter Prize-winning poet redefines and expands upon her themes of home and family by showing them in the context of survival in a nuclear age |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Blud Rachel McKibbens, 2017 Cultural brujeria, sacrilegious litanies, ritualized births, and letters from hearts and/or brains populate Rachel McKibben's world in blud-- |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Star Side of Bird Hill Naomi Jackson, 2016-08-23 Two sisters are suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Barbados to live with their grandmother, in Naomi Jackson’s stunning debut novel This lyrical novel of community, betrayal, and love centers on an unforgettable matriarchal family in Barbados. Two sisters, ages ten and sixteen, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live for the summer of 1989 with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother’s limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations, accompanies her grandmother in her role as a midwife, and investigates their mother’s mysterious life. This tautly paced coming-of-age story builds to a crisis when the father they barely know comes to Bird Hill to reclaim his daughters, and both Phaedra and Dionne must choose between the Brooklyn they once knew and loved or the Barbados of their family. Naomi Jackson’s Barbados and her characters are singular, especially the wise Hyacinth and the heartbreaking young Phaedra, who is coming into her own as a young woman amid the tumult of her family. Praise for The Star Side of Bird Hill: “Once in a while, you’ll stumble onto a book like this, one so poetic in its descriptions and so alive with lovable, frustrating, painfully real characters, that your emotional response to it becomes almost physical. . . . The dual coming-of-age story alone could melt the sternest of hearts, but Jackson’s exquisite prose is a marvel too. . . . A gem of a book.” —Entertainment Weekly (A) |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Indigo Ellen Bass, 2020-04-07 “A bold and passionate new collection... Intimacy is rarely conveyed as gracefully as in Bass’s lustrous poems.” —Booklist Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life’s complexities. Whether her subject is oysters, high heels, a pork chop, a beloved dog, or a wife’s return to health, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own “succulent skin,” the pleasure of the gifts of hunger, desire, touch. In this book, joy meets regret, devotion meets dependence, and most importantly, the poet so in love with life and living begins to look for the point where the price of aging overwhelms the rewards of staying alive. Bass is relentless in her advocacy for the little pleasures all around her. Her gaze is both expansive and hyperfocused, celebrating (and eulogizing) each gift as it is given and taken, while also taking stock of the larger arc. She draws the lines between generations, both remembering her parents’ lives and deaths and watching her own children grow into the space that she will leave behind. Indigo shows us the beauty of this cycle, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have, even as it attempts to slip away. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Renunciations Donika Kelly, 2021-05-04 An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one’s sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear, with how families harm themselves. With the companionship of “the oracle”—an observer of memory who knows how each close call with oblivion ends—the act of remembrance becomes curative, and personal mythologies give way to a future defined less by wounds than by possibility. In this gorgeous and heartrending second collection, we find the home one builds inside oneself after reckoning with a legacy of trauma—a home whose construction starts “with a razing.” |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Anne Sexton Steven E. Colburn, 1988 Contains some of the best and most representative writing about Sexton's life and work |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Three Women Sylvia Plath, 1974 A radio play in verse, comprised of three intertwining monologues by women in a maternity ward. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Making of a Poem Eavan Boland, Mark Strand, 2001 Provides a detailed explanation of the different forms of poetry--sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina--and explains the origin, traces their history, and provides examples for each form. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: The Worth of Women Moderata Fonte, 2007-11-01 Gender equality and the responsibility of husbands and fathers: issues that loom large today had currency in Renaissance Venice as well, as evidenced by the publication in 1600 of The Worth of Women by Moderata Fonte. Moderata Fonte was the pseudonym of Modesta Pozzo (1555–92), a Venetian woman who was something of an anomaly. Neither cloistered in a convent nor as liberated from prevailing codes of decorum as a courtesan might be, Pozzo was a respectable, married mother who produced literature in genres that were commonly considered masculine—the chivalric romance and the literary dialogue. This work takes the form of the latter, with Fonte creating a conversation among seven Venetian noblewomen. The dialogue explores nearly every aspect of women's experience in both theoretical and practical terms. These women, who differ in age and experience, take as their broad theme men's curious hostility toward women and possible cures for it. Through this witty and ambitious work, Fonte seeks to elevate women's status to that of men, arguing that women have the same innate abilities as men and, when similarly educated, prove their equals. Through this dialogue, Fonte provides a picture of the private and public lives of Renaissance women, ruminating on their roles in the home, in society, and in the arts. A fine example of Renaissance vernacular literature, this book is also a testament to the enduring issues that women face, including the attempt to reconcile femininity with ambition. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Figurative Language Barbara Dancygier, Eve Sweetser, 2014-03-06 This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is applied to cross-linguistic data and also to figurative structures in gesture and the visual arts. Comprehensive and practical, the book includes analyses of figurative uses of both word meanings and linguistic constructions. • Provides definitions of major concepts • Offers in-depth analyses of examples, exploring multiple levels of complexity • Surveys figurative structures in different discourse genres • Helps students to connect figurative usage with the conceptual underpinnings of language • Goes beyond English to explore cross-linguistic and cross-modal data |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Anne Sexton Anne Sexton, 2004 A collection of letters written by poet Anne Sexton in which she describes her life, thoughts and feelings, with previously unpublished poems and family pictures and memorabilia. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: Sylvia Plath Reads Sylvia Plath, 1992-02-14 Plath's voice is lucid and precise, and the poetry is deeply intense in its reading and mood. The words combined with the voice render stunning images of the inner self and the creative energy of Sylvia Plath. BooklistIncludes: Leaving Early * Mushrooms * The Surgeon at Two A.M. * The Disquieting Muses * Spinster * November Graveyard * A Plethora of Dyrads * The Lady and the Earthenware Head * On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad * On the Decline of Oracles * The Goring * Ouija * Sculptor. |
| anne sexton her kind analysis: How to Carry Water Lucille Clifton, 2020 A series of poems drawn from various collections published throughout the 40-year career of American poet Lucille Clifton-- |
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“Her Kind”: Becoming Anne Sexton 37 Chapter 4 “The Speaker in This Case”: Anne Sexton’s Persona Poems 63 Chapter 5 Constructing the Persona of the “Mad Poet” 93 Appendix A 131 …
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discuss why this analysis is relevant and why Sexton was chosen for this kind of analysis. In addition, we prove through such poetic confessions the persona’s profound depression that is …
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Lesson #3: “The Abortion” by Anne Sexton Biography: Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Biography In the introduction to the collected poetry of Anne Sexton, her close friend and fellow poet, Maxine …
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“Her Kind” Analysis “Her Kind” by Anne Sexton is about a girl who doesn’t feel she is belonged, she feels misunderstood. The poem is about her previous experiences feeling alone and out of …
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1 OIB British Option Language & Literature Synoptic Topic Post-war Writing of the 1950s & 1960s Six Poems Elizabeth Jennings: The Enemies (1955) Thom Gunn: On the Move (1957) Anne …
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Anne Sexton’s mental illness would carry on throughout her life and show itself in her writing. In 1974 she committed suicide. Sexton attended several poetry writing classes during her lifetime …
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Anne Sexton was a poet and a writer who "used the personal to speak to cultural concerns, many of which apply to women's conflicts and transitions in modern American society" (Heath 2344).
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Her Kind Anne Sexton Poem: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton Anne Sexton,2000 A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton drawn primarily from eight previously …
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ANALYSIS OF ANNE SEXTON'S 'BRIAR ROSE (SLEEPING BEAUTY)' Confessional poetry differs in content and style from other types of poetry. Confessional poets present in their …
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of Anne Sexton Anne Sexton's early life was marked by a complicated family dynamic and personal struggles that set the stage for her later challenges and achievements. Born in …
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only sketchily explains the phenomena of Anne Sexton and her times. For surely Anne Sexton was and is a phenomenon. Her rapid rise and fall, the broad appeal (and sales) of her books …
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As a poet, critic, wife and a mother, Sexton had a very busy life, but not busy enough to keep her from attempting suicide several times during her lifetime right from her 28th birthday. As a …
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Anne Sexton: Her Life Outside Poetry - TheCollector Anne Sexton was a 1950’s housewife with no clear direction to her life, struggling with what today is known as bipolar disorder. Unable to …
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that both Plath and Sexton’s poetry are examples of the very writing that Cixous envisions—both through their content and the very form of their poetry, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton’s poetry …
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Sep 21, 2023 · Pulitzer Prize for her book, Live or Die, in 1967 (Levin & Skorczewski, 2020). Her poems such as Sylvia’s Death, Wanting to Die, Cinderella, Suicide Note, Her Kind, etc. are …
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together. In the late 1960s the manic elements of Sexton's illness began to affect her career, though she still wrote and published work and gave readings of her poetry. She also …
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Anne Sexton: ‘Her Kind’ Mary Oliver: ‘Wild Geese’ Eavan Boland: ‘Ode to Suburbia’ (The selection of texts will be determined by the course instructor) PRESENTATIONS NOT …
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In her essay “Anne Sexton’s Suicide Poems”, Diana Hume George explores the different ... the kind of lie we may need to hold in check such intensely emotional content” (1984: 29). Even …
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The Rowing Endeth by Anne Sexton - Poem Analysis Anne Sexton’s ‘The Rowing Endeth‘ uses a free-verse structure to capture the unfiltered flow of thought and emotion, making it feel …
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Jun 4, 2025 · 10% - Presentation (Informal) 40%- Midterm Essay . 40% - Creative Project (Poem, Essay Analysis) There is NO Final Exam Component. AI Course Policy: The use of generative …
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production. Subsequently, there will be a section dedicated to the analysis of a series of three poems by Adrienne Rich: “Autumn Equinox,” “Cartographies of Silence” and “Snapshots of a …
Interview with Anne Sexton - JSTOR
Interview with Anne Sexton Marx: I understand that you started writing poetry only in 1957. What made you begin at such a late date? Sexton: Well, it was actually personal experience, …
Feminist Concerns in Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind” - iasj.net
Feminist Concerns in Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind” Maryam Abdulwahhab Chalabee Assistant Professor Shaymaa Zuhair Al-Wattar Feminist Concerns in Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind” Maryam …
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each writer has been carried out (“Her Kind,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and ... Anne Sexton (1928-1974) 6 3. ANALYSIS 8 3.1. Adrienne Rich’s Poetry 8 3.2. Anne Sexton’s Poetry …
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Sexton and her sisters were forced to perform on command for guests, get their hair styled weekly, and according to her eldest daughter Linda Sexton, “Mother could never forget how …
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derstood". ("Her Kind") Sexton acutely feels this social pressure to conform and the lack of an identity which embraces both her status as a woman and a writer. In "The Black Art" (Sexton …
Anne Sexton: The Scene of the Disordered Senses - AISNA
Writing did help her reconstruct a fragmented personality, but her search for a personal form shifted the direction of her poetry toward complex and unex plored paths. It can be argued, …
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her poetry. 1 She does, however, indicate a debt to VZ. D. Snodgrass in that reading his work she received "a kind of permission11 to write in the personal, "confessional," style because his …
The Electra Complex in Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton’s Poems
Like Plath, Sexton has almost become identified with the genre of confessional poetry (Lerner, 1987: 52). Like Plath, by virtue of her memories, Sexton creates her father’s image on the …
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And it is Sexton, more than any of her peers, who has been pronounced guilty of narcissism. As Joyce Carol Oates explains: "Sexton has been criticized for the intensity of her …
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Anne Sexton: A Biography, esp. 120-125.11 Sexton, the mother of two little girls, had an abortion in 1960. During the previous year, her mother had died of cancer, her father of a stroke, and …
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Anne Sexton Cinderella Analysis Anne Sexton's Cinderella: A Twisted Fairy Tale – A Deep Dive Analysis Introduction: ... oppressive family, emerges as she navigates her traumatic …
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production. Subsequently, there will be a section dedicated to the analysis of a series of three poems by Adrienne Rich: “Autumn Equinox,” “Cartographies of Silence” and “Snapshots of a …
Climbing Out of Oneself: Anne Sexton9s Transformative …
aspects of Sexton9s work, including her role in the literary tradition, her outspoken poetic voice, her exploration of the female body and sexuality, and her portrayals of womanhood within a …
Her Kind - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Anne Sexton, ‘‘Her Kind’’ from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981). >1981 by Linda Gray Sexton and Loring Conant, Jr. Reprinted with the permission of …
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An Analysis of Mother and Daughter Selves in Anne Sexton’s Poem “Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman Kennerley Roper Anne Sexton, as a woman poet, is up against long …
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Sexton Anne Sexton,2000 A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton drawn primarily from eight previously published collections Words for Dr. Y. Anne Sexton,1978 …
To Bedlam and Part Way Back: Anne Sexton, Her Therapy
ANNE SEXTON, Her Kind, in ANNE SEXTON: THE COMPLETE POEMS 15, 16 (Linda Gray Sexton ed., 1981) [hereinafter THE COMPLETE POEMS]. 2. Anne Sexton had made the …
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Resource 1.8 TP-CASTT Poetry Analysis Worksheet: “The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton 18-19 Resource 1.8T TP-CASTT Poetry Analysis Worksheet: “The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton – …
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So writes Anne Sexton to her mother in 1948, soon after her marri age. The 1950s, an era when the idea of ÔOccu pation: Hou sewifeÕ was to be uni quely sanctifi ed and celebr ated, were …
All Dolled Up: Anne Sexton’s “Self in 1958” Drafts as a Tool …
Anne Sexton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Live or Die (Live) includeda number of poems with surviving drafts that allow us to see the progression of the poems. Examining a poem’s ... Sexton’s …
