Richards describing the form of a sonnet and I thought maybe I could do that. As Sexton told Beatrice Berg, her writing began, in fact, as therapy: “My analyst told me to write between our sessions about what I was feeling and thinking and dreaming.” Her analyst, impressed by her work, encouraged her to keep writing, and then, she told Berg, she saw (on television) “I. In treatment, her therapist encouraged her to write and in 1957 Sexton joined writing groups in Boston that eventually led her to friendships and relationships with the poets Maxine Kumin, Robert Lowell, George Starbuck, and Sylvia Plath. Sexton struggled with depression for the remainder of her life. Sexton suffered from post-partum depression, and after the birth of her first daughter she suffered her first breakdown and was admitted to a neuropsychiatric hospital. In 1953, she gave birth to her first child and in 1955, her second. While Kayo was serving in Korea, Anne became a fashion model. At age 19, she married Alfred “Kayo” Sexton II. Sexton later described Garland as a “finishing” school. She attended boarding school and after graduation enrolled in Garland Junior College for one year. Sexton’s closest confidante was her maiden great-aunt. Her relationships with her parents were difficult, perhaps even abusive. The daughter of a successful businessman, Sexton’s childhood was materially comfortable but not happy. In less abstract terms, Sexton made explicit the intimacy of forces persistently treated as opposites by the society she lived in.” Her poetry presents multiplicity and simplicity, duality and unity, the sacred and the profane, in ways that insist on their similarities-even, at times, their identity. She perceived, and consistently patterned in the images of her art, the paradoxes deeply rooted in human behavior and motivation. Sexton understood her culture’s malaise through her own, and her skill enabled her to deploy metaphorical structures at once synthetic and analytic … Sexton explored the myths by and through which our culture lives and dies: the archetypal relationships among mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, gods and humans, men and women. According to Diane Hume George, “Anne Sexton’s poetry tells stories that are immensely significant to mid-twentieth-century artistic and psychic life. One of the most popular poets of mid-20th century America, Sexton’s impressive body of work continues to be widely read and debated by literary scholars and cultural critics alike. Anne Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts and raised in Weston, Massachusetts.
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