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Revista Prosa Verso e Arte. - A poesia confessional de Anne Sexton (edição bilíngue) A mulher do fazendeiro. O guisado misturado. A lascívia do seu campo, Sua vida local em Illinois, Onde todos os acres parecem. Fábricas de vassouras flurescentes: –já faz agora dez anos. que ela é seu hábito; e novamente hoje de noite. ele dirá vamos, doçura.
1. ‘ You, Doctor Martin ’. This 1960 poem draws on Sexton’s experiences of being treated by psychiatrists. Indeed, this poem is addressed to Dr Martin Orne, who treated Sexton. In irregular stanzas, the poet describes his regular routine, which contrasts sharply with the inner turmoil and chaos of his patients.
According to Diane Hume George, “Anne Sexton’s poetry tells stories that are immensely significant to mid-twentieth-century artistic and psychic life. Sexton understood her culture’s malaise through her own, and her skill enabled her to deploy metaphorical structures at once synthetic and analytic …
14 de set. de 2018 · By Taylor Jasmine | On September 14, 2018 | Updated March 8, 2023 | Comments (3) Anne Sexton (1928 – 1974) proclaimed that she was “the only confessional poet” some time before taking her own life at the age of forty-five. Following is a sampling of 10 poems by Anne Sexton, as complex and talented an artist as they come.
Oh starry starry night! This is how. I want to die: into that rushing beast of the night, sucked up by that great dragon, to split. from my life with no flag, no belly, no cry. Anne Sexton, “The Starry Night” from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981).
Only in this hoarded span will love persevere. Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you. Anne Sexton, “All My Pretty Ones” from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981).
Home. Explore. Poets. Biography. Anne Sexton (1928-1974) is often grouped with such poets as Sylvia Plath, John Berryman and Robert Lowell as a leading figure in the so-called ‘Confessional Movement’.
