ecargo28 Mar 2006

On what basis?

Actually, this poem is quite different from much of Sexton's poetry. She's often much darker. This is one of the few poems among her collection, The Awful Rowing to God, that doesn't deal with her struggle to find peace and balance in her life. In the end, faith didn't save her from suicide.

I'm not sure what you mean by "expositional" in this context. If it were more expositional and less vague and broad, I'd probably like it better. As a nonbeliever, there's nothing in Mandy's poem to draw me in.