{"id":1792,"date":"2011-11-20T09:24:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T09:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2015-05-23T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T09:26:52","slug":"words-written-in-anger-and-anguish-anne-sexton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/words-written-in-anger-and-anguish-anne-sexton\/","title":{"rendered":"Words Written in Anger and Anguish (Anne Sexton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>As Sexton slowly slid out of control, a feature of her writing was to go to free verse from rhyme.<\/address>\n<p>With words written in anger and anguish<br \/>\nFrom rhyme to free verse she veered<br \/>\nThe former written when demons under control<br \/>\nThe latter when they were freed, unsteered<br \/>\nShe careered across the page with words<br \/>\nHer therapy became our literature, we read<br \/>\nWithout guilt, as if her medical notes, which were released<br \/>\nWhen they should not have been, psychiatry meets poetry: instead<br \/>\nA new genre, and old story, and neither the therapy helped the poetry<br \/>\nOr the poetry enhanced the therapy<br \/>\nAnd like reading all medical notes<br \/>\nThe reader is none the wiser for reading, and can be<br \/>\nLittle the better afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Sexton slowly slid out of control, a feature of her writing was to go to free verse from rhyme. With words written in anger and anguish From rhyme to free verse she veered The former written when demons under control The latter when they were freed, unsteered She careered &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,233,3],"tags":[1949,313,1948],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writers","category-writing","tag-anne-sexton","tag-obituary","tag-writing-in-rhyme","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-sU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1795,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/turbulent-seas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1792,"position":0},"title":"Turbulent Seas","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd November 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\"as easily as an old woman reads a palm\" Crossing the Atlantic - Anne Sexton Journey set upon with an illusion of a boat By one who could not swim, but read a tale Of a man who walked on water in Gallilee And thought she too could not fail\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Writers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Writers","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/writers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1140,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-poet-tries-not-to-write-in-rhyme\/","url_meta":{"origin":1792,"position":1},"title":"A Poet Tries Not to Write in Rhyme","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"16th November 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I got mixed feelings on writing in non rhyming verse, and while I do every so often, I rebel against the current thinking that says one must to be taken serious in the poetry world. 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