Week 3, Sign Inventory

"Her Kind" by Anne Sexton
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry p. 304

1. "twelve fingered, out of mind" - The mythology in this poem seems rich as it does in many of Sexton's poem. 

2.  The next to last line of the stanza breaks with the rhyme scheme. Otherwise, the rhyme is regular.

3.  The poem searches for place. "I have gone out", "I have found", "I have ridden" at the beginning of each stanza.

4.  The mix of words like "whining, rearranging the disaligned" seem to suggest a jump in time from present to past.

5. The movement of the poem suggests where women fit in. Wondering the moors like a witch?  The caves of domesticity? Riding in the cart with a man driver?

6.  Simple rhymes at the end relate to the idea of fairy tales. 

7. As a confessional poet, the speaker seems to reveal something secret. " I have been her kind".

8. "I have been her kind" suggests that she is not anymore. In fear of intentional fallacy, the author's obsession with her own death and later suicide, seems to suggest a definite confessional nature in "have been".

9. "innumerable goods" seems so general when the rest of the poem is interested in specificity. It's just a better way of saying stuff, but in an interesting, obvious way.

10. the speaker flies over houses in stanza one, the speaker lives and creates meals for elves in stanza two, the speaker rides through and is crushed by the villages. The movement of home to the relation of the speaker....