poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on My Prayer by amanda_dcosta.

Dovina28 Mar 2006

I don't think Mandy is trying to draw anyone into her Christianity. Maybe she is, but not in this poem. She tries to explain her condition (exposition) and admits that it lacks what she wants. I was comparing that to what Anne Sexton is showing in only one of her poems. I was not relating Amanda's life as a whole to Anne's life as a whole.