Poetry Explorer

Search Classic and Contemporary Poetry

Search Results

Back to search

Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Searching...
Subject: SEXTON, ANNE (1928-1974)
Matches Found: 9

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CINDERELLA, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apart from my sisters, estranged
Last Line: For her joyful heart.
Subject(s): Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Mythology - Classical; Oppression; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Solitude; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism


DRUNKEN MEMORIES OF ANNE SEXTON, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first and last time I met
Last Line: As I drank the lees of her wine
Subject(s): Memory; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974)


DRUNKEN MEMORIES OF ANNE SEXTON, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The firsta nd last time I met
Last Line: As I drank the lees of her wine
Subject(s): Memory; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974)


FOR ANNE SEXTON, by RIC MASTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anne - I suffer the fate of a fan
Last Line: Anne %was there ever a dream %couldn't be rode %or a dreamer%couldn't be throwed?
Subject(s): Sexton, Anne (1928-1974)


HOW IT IS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I say how it is in your clothes?
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Suicide


HOW IT IS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I say how it is in your clothes?
Last Line: To put on the dumb blue blazer of your death
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Suicide


LAST PORTRAITS: ANNE SEXTON, by KAREN ALKALAY-GUT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A crooked, close-mouthed smile
Subject(s): Sexton, Anne (1928-1974)


NEW YEAR'S EVE 1959, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the way we used to party
Last Line: How they could jive
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974)


ON RE-READING ANNE SEXTON, by JENNIFER B. MACPHERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: While you were rowing to god
Subject(s): Sexton, Anne (1928-1974)