Conquering depression, alcoholism, and suicidal tendencies contributed to the making of a female writer who would not listen to society but take her own path in poetry. Anne Sexton was more than a housewife, but a woman with real knowledge and troubled mind that lead her to speak the unspeakable in poetry. She was the voice that struggled so dearly to be heard through her confessional style of poetry. 1. Anne Sexton’s Personal Life Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was a famous poet and playwright of her
then as an afterthought comments the unfortunate death of Paul. According to the article, “A Rocking-Horse: The Symbol, the Pattern, the Way to Live “ by William De Witt Snodgrass, “the life of the family that chooses money instead of some more stable value that takes money as its nexus of affection” (Snodgrass 191). William De Witt Snodgrass mentions the importance of money and how this impacts the lives of the family. The moral of the story is that money and materialistic things cannot substitute