“The Speaker in This Case”
“The Speaker in This Case”
Anne Sexton as Tale-Teller in Transformations
Transformations brings together several currents of Anne Sexton’s themes and methods and can be read as both a masked autobiography and transitional or gateway work from her mid to late poetry. This chapter analyzes the voice and tone she conjures to create the persona of witch/crone/teller and closely looks at the kinds of metaphors and images she employs to create her distinctive dramas. It compares her retellings to the original Grimm texts and also looks at some of her earlier poems as precursors while considering how, in her hands, the tales turn into both theatrical performances and case studies.
Keywords: Transformations, Teller, Grimm, Anne Sexton, Poem
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