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The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 2, 10/e

George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University
Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo-Toledo

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1		What elements of witchcraft does Anne Sexton introduce in "Her Kind"?



2		In what sense is the narrator of "All My Pretty Ones" a "stranger" to her father?


3		What motifs in her poetry justify the classification of Anne Sexton's poetry as "confessional"?



4		In what sense is the narrator's response to the four nuns in "Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound" an ironic reaction? Why can't she find hope the nuns' implied "good news"?


5		Explain the kinds of pain the "farmer's wife" experiences in her marriage relationship.



6		For what, acknowledges Sexton, do "men kill" in "The Truth the Dead Know"?



7		Explain the possible references found in the last stanza of "With Mercy for the Greedy." What is the significance of line 19, "Need is not quite belief"?

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