By Anne Sexton
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Publish yr note: First released in 1966
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry assortment mapping the thorny trip from insanity to pray.
With her emotionally uncooked and deeply resonant 3rd assortment, Live or Die, Anne Sexton proven her position one of the so much celebrated poets of the 20th century. Sexton defined the amount, which depicts a fictionalized model of her fight with psychological sickness, as “a fever chart for a foul case of melancholy.”
From the halls of a psychiatric hospital—“the scene of the disordered scenes” in “Flee in your Donkey”—to a child’s playroom—“a graveyard packed with dolls” in “Those instances . . .”—these gripping poems supply profound perception at the discomfort of melancholy and the excellent acts of braveness and religion required to emerge from its depths.
Along with different confessional poets like Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell, Sexton was once recognized for grappling with intimate matters frequently thought of taboo for poetry reminiscent of motherhood, menstruation, and drug dependence. Live or Die positive aspects those subject matters in candid and unflinching aspect, as Sexton represents the whole event of being alive—and a woman—as few poets have ahead of. via daring photographs and startlingly special language, Sexton explores the extensive spectrum of human emotion starting from determined depression to unfettered wish.
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Don’t tell me that he went up in smoke like Daddy’s cigar! He didn’t blow out like a match! It is special being here at Easter with the Cross they built like a capital T. The ceiling is an upside-down rowboat. I usually count its ribs. Maybe he was drowning? Or maybe we are all upside down? I can see the face of a mouse inside of all that stained-glass window. Well, it could be a mouse! Once I thought the Bunny Rabbit was special and I hunted for eggs. That’s when I was seven. Now it’s really Jesus.
Later, after the party, after the house went to bed, I sat up drinking the Christmas brandy, watching your picture, letting the tree move in and out of focus. The bulbs vibrated. They were a halo over your forehead. But you did not move. I continued to watch, forcing myself, waiting, inexhaustible, thirty-five. I wanted your eyes, like the shadows of two small birds, to change. But they did not age. The smile that gathered me in, all wit, all charm, was invincible. Hour after hour I looked at your face but I could not pull the roots out of it.
Maybe he was only hiding? Maybe he could fly? Yesterday I found a purple crocus blowing its way out of the snow. It was all alone. It was getting its work done. Maybe Jesus was only getting his work done and letting God blow him off the Cross and maybe he was afraid for a minute so he hid under the big stones. He was smart to go to sleep up there even though his mother got so sad and let them put him in a cave. I sat in a tunnel when I was five. That tunnel, my mother said, went straight into the big river and so I never went again.