ker in her latter years (American Literature 3591). She was said to see poetry as a physical experience and she used imagery as the heart of poetry (Anne Sexton 1). Her favorite topics were sex, illegitimacy, guilt, madness, and suicide (Roth Publishing 1). Anne was often compared to Sylvia Plath but distinguishes herself from Plath in her interest in the flesh rather than in emblem of pain and mutilation (American Literature 3596). Some people believed Annes style made her a bad artist while others saw it as an amazing gift.Through out her career, Anne wrote not only poetry but also short stories and books for children as well. Sextons first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, was published in nineteen-sixty, a year after her mother and father died. It was said to be very autobiographical in nature (Anne Sexton 2). Annes Love Poems were published in nineteen-sixty nine (Academy of American Poets 2). The book, Transformations was published two years later (Academy of American Poets 2). Many other works were created in the years that followed including The Double Image which evokes rage, guilt, and love, and Live or Die which was said to be one of her best works (Anne Sexton 1). Sexton believed that complete honesty and self-revelation were an essential to creative work, so this was often the basis of her poetry. Upon the publication of Annes Selected Poems, she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (The Complete Poems 8). She also won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award as well (Anne Sexton 1). Although many of Annes works were somewhat explicit, they were an extremely important contribution to the collection of art.In my opinion, Anne Sexton was a very talented writer. Although her work consisted of extremely personal issues, I feel it was just her own way of expressing her pain. It seems that poetry was the only way that Anne experienced some kind of freedom fr...
