What do you think about the arguments made for the value of poetry in either
“Why Poetry?” or “Why People Need Poetry?”
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The theme of this week is innocence and experience. Select one of the poems we’ve read so far. What do you think that poem is saying about these concepts? In other words, what do you think the theme is? Remember that themes are not simply slogans or clichés; they’re more like a message the text is conveying.
Her Kind
Anne Sexton
1928 –
1974
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 thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.
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