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Work Overview
"Her Kind"
Double Jeopardy
Did you know?
100
Anne Sexton's best friend; also a famous poet.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
100
Era of the confessional movement.
What is the 1950s-1960s?
100
The line that shows that the speaker has a very strong sense of self.
What is "I have been her kind?"
100
How Anne died.
What is suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning?
200
The mental illness Anne Sexton suffered from.
What is postpartum depression?
200
The movement Anne led.
What is the confessional movement?
200
Element that grants the poem anonymity.
Who is the speaker?
200
This infamous poem laments the death of Sexton's best friend.
What is Sylvia's Death?
300
Where Anne was born.
What is Newton, Massachusetts?
300
How confessional poetry was characterized by.
What is the personal "I?"
300
Meaning of the poem.
What is the experience of being a woman?
300
Another occupation of Sexton's.
What is modeling?
400
The college Anne attended.
What is Garland Junior College?
400
Three of the four archetypical relationships Sexton commonly referred to.
What is father-daughter, mother-daughter, God-humans, men-women, etc?
400
Three of the four themes of the work.
What is identity, isolation, gender, and society and class?
400
Four of the seven most common words in Sexton's work.
What is love, death, blood, black, dark, sleep, and fury?
500
The work that won Anne the Pulitzer Prize.
What is Live or Die?
500
The five primary themes Anne incorporated into her poetry.
What is love, death, the female experience, physical and mental abuse, and mental illness/inner turmoil?
500
Entity in the poem that symbolizes every woman who has felt like an outsider.
What is the witch?
500
The years Anne gave birth to her two daughters and their names.
What is 1953-Linda and 1955-Joyce?
500
The three universities that honored Sexton.
What is Harvard, Radcliffe, and Tuft?