Anne Sexton never spared her family — not in her art, not in her life. Cause of death:Suicide. “Make up your mind. She compares the act of committing suicide to a “voyage”(2), one that she possesses an “unnameable lust”(3) for, something she describes as out of her control at this point in her battle with depression. Anne Sexton was born in 1920s. She specialized in confessional poetry, a style that emerged and found popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, also seen in the works of other famous poets at that time such as Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell. into the death I wanted so badly and for so long, the death we said we both outgrew, the one we wore on our skinny breasts, ... Anne Sexton is very poetic, I'd venture to say that in some stages of her career she was even more so than Plath.-Shirley- on Feb 08 2007 03:46 AM x edit . In the final line she states “words and eggs must be handled with care. the dying. Confrontational in nature, Sexton’s poems allow her to face the biggest fears, among them the fear of aging and gradual decline in quality of life. On returning home she put on her mother's old fur coat, removed all her rings, poured herself a glass of vodka, locked herself in her garage, and started the engine of her car, ending her life by carbon monoxide poisoning. Birthplace:Newton, MA. She even goes so far as to compare suicide or suicide attempts as “a drug so sweet, that even children would look on and smile”(20-21). The fragility, instability and transience of words can also be interpreted as Sexton’s sanity and the dependence she had on words. Tragically, Sexton took her own life in 1974 but a link between the revelations of this poem and her suicidal thoughts, eventually driving her to actually commit suicide, can be found, as Sexton may have killed herself to avoid aging and finding herself in the same predicament as the self-portrayal of herself in Old.Throughout her entire life, Sexton dealt with depression and suicidal thoughts, as portrayed in a raw portrayal of her most desperate desire in Wanting to Die. Her life and work are especially interesting because her poetry was clearly tied to her own psychiatric treatment. Anne Sextons confessional lyric poem, “With Mercy for the Greedy” (1962) displays many ways of how she interprets life around her. Finding enormous success within her genre, Sexton joined the celebrity ranks of poets as the poems she had begun writing as a hobby became a full-time occupation with an unexpectedly large audience. The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
She is not afraid of death as a concept, but the natural process of aging terrifies her, as confirmed by this poem. To stop dreaming — well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. View some of the most famous Death quotes by Anne Sexton. Following her declaration of love for words in line 10, the tone of the poem shifts as Sexton introduces words as an antagonist as well as her lover. Anne Sexton Biography, Life, Interesting Facts Childhood And Early Life.
ride in cabs, yes death again, that ride home. Of the poems in “Live or Die,” for which Mrs. Sexton von the Pulitizer Prize, she said, “they read like a fever chart for a bad case of melancholy,”“Live or die,” she wrote. Through her brutally honest poetry, Sexton was able to portray themes most relevant to her life by creating a sense of duality between the themes in her poems and her reality while also addressing her most violent fears and desires.In the poem Words, Sexton utilizes several literary devices to create a sense of duality in the role words or language play in her life, recognizing that while her poetry saved her in many ways it still remains her worst enemy.
education: Boston University, Garland Junior College. Location of death:Weston, MA. From early adolescence, I had to be more a friend to my mother than a daughter; while that required sacrifice, it also bestowed on me a great privilege.