By using rigorous conventional structure in her early work Anne Sexton was able to successfully contain some of her severe psychological instabilities stemming from childhood in poetic form. Sexton's artistic direction underwent a sharp change midway into her poetic career after she wrote the volume Transformations, a collection of story-poems based on narratives from the Grimm fairy tales. In this collection, Sexton took on the external persona of a witch, and with her new voice, she was boldly able to re-tell her version of the Grimm tales. The new persona enabled Sexton to shed her previous voice of passivity, and instead criticize humanity by using satire and humor. Unfortunately, this movement in her work was an exercise in self-exploitation as the larger, cultural arena of Grimm put off any chance of working out her private problems. After Transformations Sexton had come to the realization of her self-exploitation and decided to even further separate herself from humanity by continuing to work with even more generalized, cultural forms--a movement that ultimately led her to mythologize her own death.

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Orientador: Eric Mitchell Sabinson / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T22:27:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_RenatoMarquesde_M.pdf: 14631472 bytes, checksum: 3264df22d3993a17a71974e8b876c591 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: Numa tentativa de compreensão do fenômeno literário conhecido como POESIA CONFESSIONAL, esta dissertação tem por objetivo estudar a obra da poeta Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974). O exame de um dos rumos que a poesia norteamericana tomou desde 1945 serve como ponto de partida e pretexto para uma análise crítica sistemática que resulta na elaboração de uma antologia traduzida e comentada de poemas de Sexton, tida como uma das mais representativas figuras da poesia dos EUA no século XX. / Abstract: In order to understand the literary phenomenon known as Confessional Poetry, this dissertation examines the work of Anne Sexton (1928-1974), regarded as one of the most representative American poets of the second half of the twentieth century. The exploration of this vein or sub-genre, one of the directions taken by the American poetry since 1945, serves as a starting point and pretext for a systematic critical analysis of Sexton's work, resulting in an annotated anthology of translations of her poems. / Mestrado / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária