Anne Sexton Context
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- Created on: 02-04-19 08:57
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- Anne Sexton
- Personal Life
- Suffered from bipolar disorder
- Married at 19
- Tried to commit suicide after birth of second daughter
- Unsuccessful, placed in psychiatric ward
- Encouraged by doctors to write poetry
- Committed suicide in 1974
- Family
- Gave birth to a daughters in 1953 and 1955
- Suffered from severe post natal depression
- Grew up in America with two older sisters
- Poetry
- Confessional poet
- Intimate and emotional content
- Often wrote about her mental illnesses
- Wrote about taboo topics
- Adultery, sex, abortion, menstruation etc
- Heavily criticised, but it made her popular and well known
- 'For My Lover, Returning To His Wife'
- Confessional poet - did she actualy have an affair?
- Men accepted to have affairs, women criticised
- Personal Life
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