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    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Young"
    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Young"
    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Young"
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    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Young"

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    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Young," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535843478
    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Young"

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      A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Young" - Gale

      08

      Young

      Anne Sexton

      1962

      Introduction

      Young by Anne Sexton was originally published in her anthology All My Pretty Ones in 1962. It was included in her posthumous Complete Poems. Both works are out of print, but Young is widely available on the Internet and in collections such as The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton, published by Mariner Books in 1999.

      Sexton is famous as being among the confessional poets of the 1960s, whose works were based on the revelation of the secret truths of their lives. She began to write poetry as part of a program of therapy recommended by her psychiatrist and went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for her work. She was also granted an honorary Ph.D. and the right to teach poetry at the university level despite her lack of formal education beyond high school. The content of her poetry is deeply influenced by her mental illness (depression) and by the system of symbolic interpretation of dreams developed in psychoanalysis, which she learned in the course of her therapy. It is often difficult for the reader, as it was for Sexton herself, to know where the facts of her life leave off and her poetic creativity begins. Young is one of Sexton's early poems in which she explores the sources of her desperation in seemingly ideal circumstances, a problem that plagued her throughout her life and career.

      Author Biography

      Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey on November 9, 1928, in Newton, Massachusetts.

      Her father owned a successful wool producing firm so she was raised in comfortable, upper middle-class circumstances. For a brief time during her adolescence Sexton's great aunt Anna Ladd Dingley, called Nanna, lived with the family and made a tremendous impression on her. After graduating high school, Sexton broke an engagement to elope with Alfred Sexton (known as Kayo), who also became a successful businessman. After working as a fashion model while still

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