Confessional Mode, Persona and Point of View in Sexton's Selected Poems

Abstract

Anne Sexton is an innovator and creator of new language and a new type storytelling she present a new way of confronting her experience by adopting unseen directness. She shows ability in using unique poetic structure. Her confessional poetry is used for cultural goals. Sexton's confessional mode of poetry is the main technique of her writing that reveals her repressed anguish and deepest emotions through verse. Her confessiomalism surpasses its limited frame to have social and public intentions. She also employs the first point of view to refer to all, she wants to create from her readers sharers in her poems. She varies the voice of narrators from child to watch. Sexton is an innovator and creator of new language and a new type storytelling she present a new way of confronting her experience by adopting unseen directness.