Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath: Minds of Distortion and Darkness

Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were both great minds, creative individuals, and some of the greatest poetic individuals of the twentieth century. Though Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were great poets, they were also obsessed with death, darkness, and plagued with manic depression. They yearned for death, and both were able to achieve their life goal of dying. They're poetry is a direct result of their morbid minds and the strange obsessions they shared during …

…affected. Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were two of the greatest and poetic minds of the twentieth Century. They were two of a kind; they shared strange obsessions, likes, dislikes, and the want and need for death. In the end, Sexton and Plath got what they wanted, but took it selfishly only thinking of what they wanted. Though they are gone, they will be remembered as the greatest "confessional" and "feminist" poets of all time.