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Tag: Anne Sexton

Young by Anne Sexton – Analysis

Posted on March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 by JL Admin

As a poet, and indeed as a person, Sexton was primarily concerned with telling stories. Diane Middlebrook begins her book Anne Sexton: A Biography with an account of Sexton’s press interviews, in which Sexton was usually asked to explain how she began writing poetry. Every time, she answered that question using many of the same…

Young by Anne Sexton – Poem Summary

Posted on March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 by JL Admin

Sexton’s ‘‘Young’’ consists of a single sentence extended over twenty-three lines of verse. It takes the form of a reminiscence of a summer evening in the narrator’s childhood. It is spoken in the voice of a first-person narrator, but this speaker should not be simply equated with the author herself. Although this voice seems to…

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