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

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    A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Courage," 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 dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535821254
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      A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Courage" - Gale

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      Courage

      Anne Sexton

      1975

      Introduction

      Courage appears in Anne Sexton’s eighth and last collection of original poems, The Awful Rowing Toward God, published by Houghton Mifflin, in 1975, a year after her suicide. It is the seventh poem in the collection, most of which were initially written to be a part of her 1974 collection, The Death Notebooks. The religious tone of the Rowing poems, however, dictated another book. Like many of the poems in the collection, Courage universalizes the speaker’s experience, the you in the poem standing for everyone. Sexton marches the reader through the stages of life, detailing in a series of symbolic metaphors the courageous ways that human beings respond to adversity. In four free verse stanzas of crisp, fresh, sometimes surreal images, Sexton tells the story of a human being’s life from childhood to old age, showing the resilience of the human spirit and underscoring human beings’ power to endure even the most difficult

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