From then on, Sexton spent most of her life in the affluent, upper-middle class suburbs of Boston (Discovering Biographies 2). ... To overcome her troubles, she married at age nineteen and attempted to settle into the role of housewife and mother (Discovering Biographies 2). ... "Poetry gave me a rebirth at age twenty-nine" (American Literature 3591), Anne quoted many times during her career. ... "I made myself numb, made my body like stone in exchange for my mother's love" Anne's eldest daughter exclaimed (Linda Sexton 1). ... Anne's Love Poems were published in ninetee...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In her poem anthology, The World's Wife, Carol Ann Duffy introduces a female perspective to the stories of many famous men in history and literature, such as King Herod and Midas. ... In these poems Duffy examines love and relationships, as well as how deeply loss and disappointment can affect someone. ... We understand that Medusa has grown past her "age of youth" and has probably lost the beauty she had in her youth. ... Medusa's character is nearly impossible to sympathise for early in the poem: she is the epitome of a middle aged woman who seemingly overreacts based o...

• Word Count: 1489
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Walt Whitman was and still is a very influential poet and one of the most famous writers of poetry in American Literature. ... " Based on Whitman's words, the bodies of both males and females not only perfect, but sacred and deserve to be revered and loved. ... The middle of the poem Whitman tells a little girl not to fear death because "there really is no death.... " The phase seems to say that any death is better than dying from old age. ... While both themes are different they both present a picture of ones thoughts, feelings and love....

• Word Count: 1606
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the final stanza, the speaker uses emotional phrases, such as, "Believe me I loved you all" to emphasize that she loved them to let them and herself know that she really loved them although she did what she had to do(line 33). ... I see the speaker as a confused, middle-aged woman who has undergone a lot of stress in her lifetime. ... Finally, the readers can see her genuine love for her unborn in the final paragraph. ... Love is an emotion that is hard to express in words, and for someone to say over and over again that she loved her kids she must have meant it. ...

• Word Count: 1519
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School