1 / 10

Ann Sexton

Anne Sexton. Ann Sexton. By:Lindsey Ballantyne. Ann Sextons life. Ann sexton was born in Newton,Massachusetts,in 1928. She attended Garland Junior College for 1 year. She married at the age of nineteen.

lowell
Download Presentation

Ann Sexton

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Anne Sexton Ann Sexton By:Lindsey Ballantyne

  2. Ann Sextons life • Ann sexton was born in Newton,Massachusetts,in 1928. • She attended Garland Junior College for 1 year. • She married at the age of nineteen. • Sexton enrolled in a modeling course at the Hart Agency and lived in San Francisco and Baltimore.

  3. Ann Sextons life cont. • She had two daughters there names were Linda and Joyce Sexton. • Unfortunately she got divorced in the early 1970’s.

  4. Sickness Strikes • Ann sexton was diagnosed with postpartam depression in 1954 and she had her first mental breakdown. • She was admitted to Westwood Lodge. • Following the birth of her second daughter Sexton suffered another breakdown and was hospitalized again.

  5. Tragedies Happen • That same year, on her birthday, she attemped suicide. • She was encouraged by her doctor to pursue an interest in writing poetry.

  6. Poetry Career is Beginning • In 1957 she enrolled in a poetry workshop at the Boston Center for Adult Education. • Her life’s goal was the writing of poetry this gave Sexton something to work towards. • She developed and enabled her to endure life for as long as she did.

  7. When She Died • In 1974 at the age of 46, despite a successful writing career she lost the battle with mental illness and committed suicide.

  8. Some Of Ann Sextons Writings To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) All My ones (1962) Live or Die(1966)- (Winner of the American Place Theatre 1969) The Death Notebooks(1974)

  9. My Poem

More Related