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On Being Seen Or For Those Who Break Like Me, Shanisha K. Branch
On Being Seen Or For Those Who Break Like Me, Shanisha K. Branch
English Theses & Dissertations
The nature of truly seeing is something I’ve had a hard time grappling with. If you understand the difficultly of seeing and wanting others to see you that same, then these pages are for you.
"A Terror And A Dream": Domestic Imagery In The Poetry Of Anne Sexton, Frances S. Waters
"A Terror And A Dream": Domestic Imagery In The Poetry Of Anne Sexton, Frances S. Waters
English Theses & Dissertations
Women writers often experience a conflict between traditional feminine roles and the less traditional role of the female writer. And for those writers, like Anne Sexton, who choose not to choose between roles, the result is conflict. This conflict, recognized by previous critics and evident in Sexton's biography and poetry, results in a domestic imagery expressing this vacillation. In this study, submitted in partial fulfillment for the M. A. degree in English, I provide an in-depth study of Sexton's domestic imagery. I concern myself with two imagery patterns: one, in which the symbolic image's meaning changes randomly with no controlling …