Journal+5-Poetry

Choose a poem from one of the following sites. Poems Poems 2 Poems written by teens

Consider the following and formulate a written response and analysis.

1. Who is speaking? Hint: It's not the author. Is it a woman? Man? Child? Adult? Teen? Female? Male? 2. Take a look at the copyright date of the poem at the bottom of the page. How does the time period during which the poem was written influence the poem. Feel free to "google" the year to get an idea of what was going on. Is the poet American? British? Consider where the author is from when looking at important events from the given year. 3. What is the tone of the poem? 4. What is the mood of the poem? 5. What are your favorite parts? 6. What can you connect to? 7. Why did the author write this poem? What was his/her purpose? 8. Who is the intended audience? Who did the author write the poem "to?" 9. What are your overall thoughts and impressions? 10. What does the poem represent? Is there anything symbolic that stands out to you?

2) The time period influences the poem because it uses different words and says stuff like "//****//I have ridden in your cart, driver". 3) The mood of the poem is sad and depressing. 4) It is like a misunderstood mood like not understanding type. 5) My favorite part is "I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses". 6) I can connect to it is a person others can not understand. 7) Annie Sexton's reason to writing this poem maybe that she wanted people to know that she is not afraid of being different. 8) The audience seems to be teens or adults. 9) My overall thought is that this is a different poem and its very interesting. 10) This poem represents different people and how people look at them. Nothing symbolic stands out for me.//**
 * //1) The person who is speaking is a woman.

**HER KIND**
BY ANNE SEXTON

I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind. I have found the warm caves in the woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks, innumerable goods;fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves: whining, rearranging the disaligned.A woman like that is misunderstood.I have been her kind. I have ridden in your cart, driver,waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor where your flames still bite my thighand my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind.

Anne Sexton, “Her Kind” from //The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton// (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981). Copyright © 1981 by Linda Gray Sexton and Loring Conant, Jr. Reprinted with the permission of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.