In the poem, Her kind by Anne Sexton, is a woman’s journey through life till death. The narrator in this poem is not describing herself, I am not for sure who the person is she’s describing but whoever it is, she understands what she is going through. The tone of this poem is very dark and lonely, the diction and imagery follow this dark tone throughout the poem. The poem uses words like, “possessed”, “witch”, “haunting”, “black”, “evil”, and “lonely”. The imagery in this poem is very mysterious. For example, “I have found the warm caves in the woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks, innumerable goods.” I don’t really understanding the meaning behind this sentence, what do all these items have to do with the poem? I also don’t understand the part in the third stanza that says, “…where your flames will bite my thigh sand my ribs crack where your wheels wind.” This one sentence in the poem I don’t understand at all, I can’t figure out the meaning of it. The repetition of “I have been her kind”, illustrates that the narrator of this poem has been through similar things in his/her own life that this women in the poem has been through. The rhyme scheme in this poem has a lot of changes, in each stanza there is one sentence that doesn’t rhyme with any other lines in that stanza ( why do they do this?)
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