undressing Anne Sexton

[heslopian]

the use of the boat plays well off her book "The Awful Rowing Toward God" and of the death wish her depression inspired within her is extremely well done. the lines that follow all lead to to the last stanza.

some really good lines that make me feel the period ( though i don't call the sixties a perod (for poetry lol) ) i think i should say the moment/s of who she was.

remove your cigarette, and flick it near
the shushing tide like an audience filling
each bare theatre seat, is for me a great line of poetry.

some of the images work so well in giving us some idea of the woman,
the layered meaning in the title of the poem is a work of art in itself.

thanks for the read jack.

Thanks for the kind words Billy