Again and Again and Again by Anne SextonYou said the anger would come back 1
just as the love did. I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. 5 I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates. It is old. It is also a pauper. I have tried to keep it on a diet. 10 I give it no unction. There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my 15 left breast. I have made a vocation of it. Lust has taken plant in it and I have placed you and your child at its milk tip. 20 Oh the blackness is murderous and the milk tip is brimming and each machine is working 25 and I will kiss you when I cut up one dozen new men and you will die somewhat, again and again. 30 |
TPCAST of Again and Again and AgainTitle: May be a connotative meaning for a burden that keeps returning. Figuratively meaning that no matter how hard one tries, it comes back again and again.
Paraphrase: Nothing cold stop the depression from coming back. The depression hides the real me and will not let my happiness breathe. It will not go away. No matter what I do it keeps haunting me. I have a heart and I am happy but the darkness won't let it show. The depression keeps coming back and will not let me live and love. Connotations & Literary Devices: Line 13-14= simile to show the power of the darkness. Line 8= imagery the long lasting effect of the darkness to show . Line 22=allusion of darkness turning into death. Lines 10-11= connotion meaning that although she tries to stay happy and give the blackness no reason to return, it never leaves. Attitude: Depressingly Cynical Shifts: Line 21= tone change Theme: No matter how hard one tries, you can never escape the darkness of yourself. |