All My Pretty Ones (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Gray Harvey
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life
The Poem
“All My Pretty Ones” is the title poem of Anne Sexton’s intensely confessional second book of poetry, All My Pretty Ones (1962), and it reflects that volume’s absorption with loss and death. This poem consists of five ten-line stanzas and resembles the form of most of the companion poems in the volume. The poem’s title comes from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1606), when Macduff mourns the loss of his wife and children. In March of 1959, Anne Sexton’s mother died, followed in June of the same year by Sexton’s father. “All My Pretty...
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