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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.
Discover the confessional and feminist poetry of Anne Sexton, who influenced Sylvia Plath and other poets. Read her poems about mental illness, fairy tales, Auschwitz, and more.
Learn about the life and work of Anne Sexton, one of the most popular poets of mid-20th century America and a pioneer of the Confessional movement. Explore her themes, styles, awards, and influences through her poems and essays.
- The Art of Confessional Poetry
- A Curse Against Elegies
- Again and Again and Again
- The Ambition Bird
- Wanting to Die
- More Than Myself
- The Fury of Sunsets
- Her Kind
- Barefoot
- Red Roses
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In an analysis of Sexton within the genre of confessional poetry, Dr. Ruwayda Jassim Muhammad offers these observations: “The events of Sexton’s life are revealed in her poems — her breakdown, time in a mental hospital, her therapy, her troubled marriage (ending in divorce, her affairs, and her relationship with her two daughters became transparent...
Oh, love, why do we argue like this? I am tired of all your pious talk. Also, I am tired of all the dead. They refuse to listen, so leave them alone. Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead … 1. Full text of “A Curse Against Elegies” 2. Analysis of “A Curse Against Elegies” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
You said the anger would come back just as the love did. I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates. It is old. It is also a pauper. I have tried to keep it on a diet. I give it no unction … 1. Full text of “Again and Again and Again” 2. Analysis of “Again and Again and A...
So it has come to this – insomnia at 3:15 A.M., the clock tolling its engine like a frog following a sundial yet having an electric seizure at the quarter hour … 1. Full text of “The Ambition Bird” 2. Analysis of ‘The Ambition Bird” . . . . . . . . . .
Since you ask, most days I cannot remember. I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage. Then the almost unnameable lust returns. Even then I have nothing against life. I know well the grass blades you mention, the furniture you have placed under the sun … 1. Full text of “Wanting to Die” 2. Analysis of “Wanting to Die” . . . . . . . . . . Anne ...
Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind, in the commonplaces of the asylum where the cracked mirror or my own selfish death outstared me . . . 1. Full text of “More Than Myself” . . . . . . . . . .
Something cold is in the air, an aura of ice and phlegm. All day I’ve built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it … 1. Full text of “The Fury of Sunsets” 2. Analysis of the Fury sequence, of which this poem is part. . . . . . . . . . .
I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind … 1. Full text of “Her Kind” 2. Analysis of “Her Kind” . . . . . . . . . .
Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked. Intricate nubs, my toes. No longer bound. And what’s more, see toenails and all ten stages, root by root. All spirited and wild, this little piggy went to market and this little piggy stayed. Long brown...
Tommy is three and when he’s bad his mother dances with him. She puts on the record, “Red Roses for a Blue Lady” and throws him across the room. Mind you, she never laid a hand on him. He gets red roses in different places, the head, that time he was as sleepy as a river, the back, that time he was a broken scarecrow, the arm like a diamond had bit...
Explore the life and work of Anne Sexton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who wrote about her mental illness, marriage, and death wish. Read excerpts and links to analyses of 10 of her most famous poems, such as "A Curse Against Elegies" and "Wanting to Die".
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).
A poem by Anne Sexton about her father's death and legacy. She remembers his photos, his diary, his suits, and his alcoholism, and forgives him for his faults.
Learn about the life and work of Anne Sexton, a leading figure in the Confessional Movement and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Explore her poems on mental illness, feminism, fairy-tales and more.
