Anne Sexton, Lucille Clifton, and Gwendolyn Brooks felt that living as a woman in their
era is not an easy thing to because they were always presented with perfect images of how
women should be. Sexton, Clifton and Brooks acclaimed how they experienced injustice
as women. One way they experienced this injustice is that they couldn’t choose the kind of
maternal and gender role that they wanted because of this perfect images they were
presented, and made them feel less confidence about their-self.
Anne Sexton is an American poet who was very successful making a lot of great poems.
But she suffered from severe mental illness and depression. Because she was rejected by
her middle-class parents, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother’s literary aspirations,
as she said “Almost always marked by imaginative and often surrealistic verve and
frequently characterized by sardonic wit as well as unflinching candor, her poems
struggled against the pain of her past to sing in celebration of the woman I am” (919).
Sexton’s poem is portraying her struggle in her life and also her celebration as a woman
and her theme is injustice and women celebration. She was struggling with her past
(overcome her depression), and she was trying to make her life better by writing poems.
And she wanted to tell the readers that every woman is beautiful, and every woman
deserves the same chance as men. In her poem called Celebration of My Uterus, she stated,
“Sweet Weight, in celebration of the woman I am and of the soul of the woman I am and of
