Anne Sexton

1) The speaker is Anne Sexton, IMO. This poem is one of Anne Sextons strophic poems, with a clear rhyme scheme and stanza order. The speaker is insane, yet she is able to maintain a sense of reality. She identifies with female oppression. Her Kind was written to lay erupt Sextons despair towards the world, while coping with mental illness. 2) I have been her kind means that she closely identifies with for each one type. This, I believe, is Sextons transference of her many selves into the poem.She was, in her mind, many different personalities. 3) In the first stanza, the figure is plain a witch or someone who has beliefs that go against what society dictates, maybe a vixen. In the instant stanza, the figure is the woman who keeps a nicely stocked home is misunderstood for reasons such as the dismission of independence. The last stanza is an eachusion (I believe) to Joan of Arc who was burned at the stake for trying to be more than what society deemed a woman should be.Anne Sext on often uses references to her admired her greatly. Sexton wrote this poem in such a air that it will continue to speak to and empower women everywhere. She is looking into a looking glass and identifying with all women and with all aspects of her own mentally ill mind. Her state of mind is one of despair, loneliness, and her feelings of being an outcast. Anne Sexton battled depression and dissatisfaction with her tush in life all of her life.