Summary Of 45 Mercy Street By Anne Sexton

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In Anne Sexton’s poem, “45 Mercy Street”, she illustrates a narrative of her desperate and distressing attempt of finding the place she once called home. As she is “walking up and down Beacon Hill/ searching for a street sign -/ namely MERCY STREET”, memories of her past resurfaces and the line separating dream and reality grows faint. In the midst of her search for the house with the memories that taints her life, she realizes I am walking and looking and this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime. Sexton connects her misfortunes in life to the memories of her childhood and she awakens herself from the dream she has fabricated over time to the truth of her reality. As the poem progresses from the line mentioned above, Sexton becomes more frantic and distraught. …show more content…

Her written words expresses the jumbled thoughts that raced through my mind the night I felt most vulnerable. Cars sped by on the dark streets as I wondered what life truly meant. I was so caught up in this fantasy of a perfect world and for a long time of period I believed all was well. But like all wonderful dreams, my world of happiness all came to an end when reality came knocking at my door just to rip my heart out. Reality gave me a check and left me with an emptiness that I did not know how to fill. I wondered where life was taking me and I questioned every detail just to find an answer as to what sort of path is life leading me down to. I became destructive as the answers I was looking for was never straightforward and this lead me down a spiral of despair. WIthout realizing it the first few times of reading Sexton’s poem, I was able to connect my past with her words and it brought a deeper meaning to

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