Professor: Arnie Kantrowitz

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Professor: Arnie Kantrowitz Student: Dolores Tobias

ENL 350 Paper #2 April 28, 2004

Anne Sexton and John Milton are the poets that I have chose. They have the power to lure us into their worlds with just reading their picture- like words. Both of them open our minds for our imagination to see what they see in their poetry. For example in Anne Sexton's poem "The Truth the Dead Know" it shows psychological profile of her parents death.

Anne Sexton is born on November 9, 1928, and she died the 4th of October in 1974 Anne Sexton. Gray Harvey poet and playwright, the daughter of Ralph Harvey, a successful woolen manufacturer, and Mary Gray Staples. Anne was raised in comfortable middle-class circumstances in Weston, Massachusetts, and at the summer compound on Squirrel Island in Maine, but she was never at ease with the life prescribed for her. Her father was an alcoholic, and her mother's literary aspirations had been frustrated by family life. Anne took refuge from her dysfunctional family in her close relationship with "Nana" (Anna Dingley), her maiden great-aunt who lived with the family during Anne's adolescence. Sexton's biographer, Diane Middle brook, recounts