Anne Sexton (1928-1974) is one of the major feminist American poets of the twentieth
century. She introduces feminist ideas and issues into her confessional poetry. Her Kind is one of
Sexton's confessional poems that deal with the image of woman in the modern society. In her
poem, she presents female stereotypes that are going through personal struggles. Sexton’s Her
Kind is about a woman who is seeking her life through struggling for recognition by antidomesticating
herself in the masculine world. Sexton’s poem is a serious attempt to understand
woman's estrangement of the world she lives in. Sexton categorized those women who suffers a
lot in their endeavors to conform with the prevailing feminine stereotypes. She encouraged them
to break the falsified conventions of the masculine society. The paper shows that there are three
iconic images of women in the three stanzas of Sexton's poem; the ‘possessed witch’ in stanza
one, the conventional and traditional housewife in stanza two, and the adulteress in stanza three,
whose society continues to misunderstand her, therefore, Sexton celebrates her for She sees the
world differently. This poem is about all women, for the speaker says she has “been her kind,”
and that she is no longer of her kind because she changed into new different woman.
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