Search Essays

…Anne Sexton Anne Sexton became one of the best known of the often-controversial Confessional poets. Anne Sexton wrote openly about menstruation, incest, adultery, and drug addiction at a time when these topics were forbidden in poetry. There’s…

…All Her Pretty Ones, and then some.. An interpretation of the poetry of Anne Sexton Anne Gray Harvey was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1928. After attending one year of college, she eloped and married Alfred "Kayo" Sexton at the age…

…June 18, 1901: Dear Diary, The starting shortstop for the Reds was injured so the Reds called me up from the Rompers to play for them. I played one of my best games ever. At shortstop I was flawless and at bat I collected 3 hits. Most of the people I…

…. This does not happen to everyone. Does it even happen to anyone? The poem Cinderella written by Anne Sexton demonstrates the fact that not everything that you want to become to true does. She does this by going threw her story and being very sarcastic…

…ANNE SEXTON Her Kind This is a poem that is filled with imagery that the author uses to identify the reader with what I feel were personal stresses in her own life. In class we talked about Anne as an emotionally challenged women who couldn’t…

…two or three times to see if her boyfriend has phoned. On a bad day - of which there are many - the statistics are less satisfying. Still, the obsessive Jones dutifully records them all in her hilarious but poignant diary: "Saturday 12 August: 129 pounds…

…Diary Entries of Napoleon Bonaparte November 25, 1799 Dear Diary, I, Napoleon Bonaparte, have finally succeeded! I have become the new strong leader of France. Thanks to the Revolution, I advanced from the position of lieutenant in the artillery…

…Dear Diary, Today I had an amazing feast at the Mead Hall. It consisted of 30 of the king’s spearmen. They had passed out because they had so much alcohol to drink. It made I easier to eat them because of that. Best of all King Hrothgar has done…

…Anne Sexton Anne Sexton was the poet I chose to write about. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1928, she committed suicide after several mental brake downs at the age of 46. She held many different jobs, she was a librarian, fashion model…

…Anne Bradstreet was one of the first female poets in the early Americas. She wrote The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America in 1650, and this collection of poems is considered the first book of original poetry written in colonial America…