The Loss and Search of Feminist Identity:Feminist Confession of Anne Sexton
As a representative poet of American Confessional School,Anne Sexton with her highly personal and confessional verse depicts her loss of feminist identity and her search of it.Behind her seemingly ideal life as a woman,it conceals a traumatized daughter,depressed wife and hysterical mother,regarding poetry as her soothing psychotherapy.Sexton's depression is rooted in her life-long anxiety about her own female identity.On the one hand,the depression from patriarchy leads to her loss of feminist identity;on the other hand,the lack of maternal love since a young age results in her desire for and denial of motherhood in her adult years.In her poetic confession,she tries to search the lost self and to rebuild her feminist identity.
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