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WIFEBEATER by ANNE SEXTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE WILL BE MUD ON THE CARPET TONIGHT
Last Line: AND THE WIFE AND DAUGHTER KNIT INTO EACH OTHER UNTIL THEY ARE KILLED
Subject(s): GOD; RELIGION;

Poem Sources:

THE COMPLETE POEMS. WITH A FOREWORD BY MAXINE KUMIN.
  SEXTON, ANNE
  (1981)
 



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