Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton, who is considered one of the Great American Author, wrote during the Contemporary period. Anne’s most particular poem collection is titled “All My Pretty Ones(1962) and Live Or Die(1966)”. In each of these poem collections they show us evidence of Characteristics, themes, and style identified with the Contemporary movement which was extant in American letters between 1945 and 1974. Anne Sexton was one of the best well known Poets in the Contemporary Movement thus, still remains one of the most iconic writers in her in her time.
Anne Sexton was born in Newtown, Massachusetts a poet and playwright. Anne was born in a middle-class but doesn’t mean she had an easy life. Her dad was an alcoholic and her mother’s literary aspirations had been frustrated by family life. Anne took refuge from her “dysfunctional” family with her “Nana”(Anne Dingley). It is reported that Anne experienced sexual abuse by her parents.
Baby pictures deals with her depressed side. The poem talks of a girl looking deep in a photograph of a girl. She mentions how this girl is in a type of stress like depression. “Anne, who are you? Merely a kid keeping alive”. This shows that this poem has to do with her past or she felt when her was a little girl. The poem presents you with a thought of thinking who this girl that is being speak of. Like most of her poems they represent how she felt in her life and you can actually see how it corresponds with that type of era. From all the poems that I have read myself I can say that you can really tell how her past and living conditions really do contradict on her writing. It’s so crazy how she kept on writing even when she was going through all those problems. Anne Sexton in my opinion is one of the greatest example of the contemporary movement and I really do enjoy her wonderful