Anne Sexton's "Her Kind" the Essay

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Throughout the poem, the use of past tense active verbs places the poem in a strange sort of disconnected yet impassioned context, reinforcing the idea that the poem is a chant of sorts. This is most apparent, of course, in the repeated "I have been her kind."

There is perhaps no element in the poem that contributes to the tone more than the imagery. This changes significantly from stanza to stanza, and so is also the main organizational criteria of the poem.
The imagery moves from spooky and evil in the first stanza to a more benign and warm but still secretive magic in the second, with pictures of "worms and elves," and resolves in the open light of a cart ride in the third stanza, revealing woman finally in her….....

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