Date of Award

Summer 1984

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

Committee Director

Philip D. Raisor

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.E64 W365

Abstract

Women writers often experience a conflict between traditional feminine roles and the less traditional role of the female writer. And for those writers, like Anne Sexton, who choose not to choose between roles, the result is conflict. This conflict, recognized by previous critics and evident in Sexton's biography and poetry, results in a domestic imagery expressing this vacillation. In this study, submitted in partial fulfillment for the M. A. degree in English, I provide an in-depth study of Sexton's domestic imagery. I concern myself with two imagery patterns: one, in which the symbolic image's meaning changes randomly with no controlling network: two, in which the symbolic image's meaning is controlled by the kitchen or general domestic environment. I examine this previously underdeveloped imagery pattern and relate it to Sexton's biography—providing new criticism on both the artist and her work.

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DOI

10.25777/m90b-1w34

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