“The Addict”
Abstract
This is an essay about Anne Sexton’s poem “The Addict,” It describes how Anne Sexton tried desperately tried to rid herself of mental illness and drug addiction. She wrote from her heart and her personal experience.
The hymn “When Peace Like a River Attended my Way,” was written out of great despair; the writer whole family perished at sea and when he came to the area in the ocean he went to his cabin and penned this famous hymn. Like her counterpart, Anne Sexton’s poetry is born out of great depression; she began to write ...