Anne SextonA Life of Drama, Joy, and Poetry

Anne Sexton was an excellent poet; she was both inspirational and brutally honest. Sexton's poems present a true sense of the world, not the sugar- coated version usually heard. She touched on subjects that were considered to be taboo in her era; everything from incest to masturbation. Sexton was born in 1928. She grew up in a conventional middle- class family, in Massachusetts. Sexton married in her teens and worked as a fashion model. She had …

…family problems. She could not deal with motherhood and let go of her guilt, but worst than that not anything could have saved her, not even her poetry. Anne Sexton had dealt with so many family issues, so much guilt, that although she found comfort in her writing ultimately it wasn't enough. "Death motions to us wordlessly. Powerfully in the voice she was given, Sexton motioned back, each word a gift to the living." (George 315)