Anne Sexton

Some of Anne’s readers even claimed that Anne spoke to them through her writings because the reader could relate so much.

Confessionalism is said to be the biggest part of Anne Sexton’s poetry. This is believed because the woman who read her poetry could relate to her somehow. ” This is a powerful quote because it explains the influence that confessional poetry, especially by Anne Sexton, can put on people. The works of confessional poets was not highly respected because the things talked about in their poetry was considered inappropriate in the 50’s and 60’s. Her work was influenced by her psychological problems and used mythical imagery to enhance the feeling her reader’s got when they read her work. She was immediately committed to therapy and her doctor strongly recommended that she continue writing poetry as a way to reduce the amount of stress in her life. Anne Sexton was great because she used her psychological problems and shame to open up to the reader. This is why Anne Sexton’s poetry strongly impacted all of those who read it. She also seemed to be the character in many of her poems because she described a typical educated New England woman and she described places or people she had known or seen in her life in many of her works. Rosenthal (analyst of Anne’s work) says, “These poems seemed to me one combination of the romantic and modem tendency to place the literal self more and more at the center of the poem in such a way as to make her psychological vulnerability and shame an embodiment of her civilization. In her later works especially before her suicide she started to explore questions of religion and faith. They believed this because Sexton wrote her poems in the first person perspective, using “I”. Many people began to speak their mind and express their thoughts more clearly.