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Apuntes de Anne Sexton. Asignatura "Realismo Social y Generación Beat" del tercer año del Grado en Estudios Ingleses. Universidad de La Laguna. ...

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Brito 18 abril de 2018 Anne Sexton (1928-1974) 1) Newton (MA), lonely as child, eloped with Alfred Sexton. 2) Psychiatric treatment Live or Die (Pulitzer Prize) Mercy Street, Lover Poems, Tansfomation. 3) Autobiography, self analysis, Freud, Carl Being (Collective unconscious) 4) Suicidal speaker: a)betrayal b)abandonment c) guilt 5) Love Poems: a) Woman´s dependency b) celebrating female diversity: sisters. Anne sexton at home- 1 (VOSE) video…… anne sexton primera parte first part ….comment anne sexton behaviour!!! Was born in newton Massachusetts that is why she connected to new england she spent apparently a happy childhood and had servants . She had two sisters however she was alone as a child. She did not graduated from university but she studied at boarding school: preliminary schools before university. She bécame profesor of creative writting. She escaped form home with a guy had two daughters linda greim a daughter bécame a minister until she was 20. The birth of her second daughter Joyce she began to received psychiatric tratment suffered periods of anxiety.Her live was not a normal life anxiety provoked enter sicoanalitc traetment aopra com0ensar anxiety a doctor to write as theraphy. Pulitzer prize live or die in 1967. Mercy street play performed en new york. Profesosr creative writting Boston university 3 honour doctorates for her poetry. She was a sick woman involved in alcohol. Despite succeed involved in sadness. End she committed suicide before 46 birthday. She worked in eighteen years. Productive writer without formal education. Her poems bécame more mature when she atended Robert Lowell. Her talent lies in her autobiographical analysis. Psycoanalitical sesión essential for her writting life. Her creative capacity comes from her unconscious mind. Readings were exclusively from Freud and Carl Jung. So Sexton recognizes de psicioanalitical theory at a metaphoric and poetic level. So her poetry speaks about a woman who atended psicoanaliticla sessions. A suffered of her own mind, her own unconscious. A suicidal speaker characterized by betrayal abandonment and guilt. Betrayal is a recipical betrayal for instance his suicide menas that she betrayes her own values, she also betrayed love. The speaker that was her , was betrayed by her beloved people and her own daughters and lovers. She was also betrayed by live itself. This suicider speaker was abandon by her mather and father, husband. For Freud abandon of a child is terrible to lose protection of a father. She was abandon by her own daughters. The suicider speaker characterized by the sense of guilt. She is always responsable for needing to much. She looses her pyshcological balance. She feels guilt cuz she is a woman, her guilt because she was born and finally her guilt she should be punished through death, suicide. She wrote about abortion, incest, adultery, addiction any topic in a raw way. Readers find morbideness in her Works . So sexton very rea dan books appeared in people who were not used to Reading poetry, sencionalis, she was mentally ill and this produced a morbideness so to involve in her poetry means to be involved in her life. In the fifties sexton bored long dresses, read smoking cigarrettes.

Her love poems extramarital affairs. Many poems reinforced the traditional notion of women depending on men. Women needed to achive her own identity through men. She bécame protofeminist writer womanhood closed to feminism. Also celebrates aconnection shared by all women she did not mention men at all, she claimed for sisterhood. American poetry will not be always the same. Ambitious women in the development of contemporary literatura. Her evils drop to human experience. All them committed suicide. Her poetry bécame victorious.

1)Indicate the main figure in which this poem is focus on, indicate examples of you selection. She is revising her family pictures, notebooks, her deccission. She wants to forget. 2) in which way does therapy appears in this poem. Mother submissed role did not protected her own daughters. 3)Is she interested in the historical narrative of the united states. If sso how this historical narrative affected her? She found a guilty in her own drunkness. She tries to reestructure her desintegrating life. The poem is to confess her live unhappy so she needs a reafirmation because she has lost everything. She is in love with her father. To forget her past but to maintain her link with her father. 4) Is she also writting about other members of her family? How?

Love can not be find anywhere except in writting anne sexton...