Issues of today
Anne Sexton: Issues of Today Anne Sexton, a confessional poet, began writing at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. ... Although some of her poetry is more than thirty years old, the issues depicted remain contemporary. ... The community continues to put these expectations and limitations on women today, leaving us feeling torn between whom we are and who we “should be. ... People felt this way when Sexton wrote this in the sixties and we continue to have these apprehensions regarding spiritual beliefs today. ... Many people in today’s society are spiritual without out belonging to a specific religious sector. ... In the second stanza of the poem Sexton writes, “Before today my body was useless. ... This feeling of not having a purpose or being unloved is one that remains in people in today. ... Much of today’s music is written about being in love or comes from the experience of being in love.