Analysis Of Her Kind By Anne Sexton

“Her Kind” by Anne Sexton was initially called “Night Voice on a Broomstick” holding a concluding stanza that lacked a powerful image, theme, and a prevailing tone. With tedious and constant revision, she finally introduced a refrain, “I have been her kind”, that would forever alter the poem. Dual points of view are labeled "I" in each stanza, however, through the use of the parallel yet double "I," the poem crafts a single character identified as a possessed witch to be later disconnected through perception. In doing so, Sexton created a piece of work that cunningly finds a way to embody a state symbolized not necessarily through the words, but through expressions that desire to be understood. Ultimately, without this refrain and that powerful “I”, she wouldn’t have been able to stage the platform into "like that" to deduce, observe, and support her alter ego in the same line, nor encompass these dual characters and symbolized the misconceptions Sexton wished to portray

“I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by”, is openly addressing a man in her society who is driving her, in my opinion, to the stake. She speaks as if she is unafraid as she is waving to the watchful eye of the public. Naked arms describe delicateness and seductiveness, however, holding her ground beside the judgmental eye of society, welcoming death as they judge her. It doesn’t matter in what custom she is killed in, because ultimately, demise nor society will take away her sense of identity and force her into social regulation. However, Due to the state of society she lived in she states very directly, “A woman like that is not ashamed to die”. Sexton describes that she is even “still” feeling the crack of her ribs and the heat of the fire suggesting that there are ongoing societal disparities as she expresses with “where your flames still bite my thigh and my ribs crack where your wheels