چکیده (انگلیسی):

This paper argues that Anne Sexton unfolds many psychological patterns in her confessional poems “Sylvia’s
Death” and “Suicide Note” to express the dilemma of a woman caught up in the trap of domesticity,
irrationality, and death desires. Sexton’s poems are analyzed to explain the reasons that stand behind the
persona’s strong eagerness to die. We closely examine the suicidal tendencies that are found in the deep
psyche of a troubled woman, paying attention to the basic problems women have always suffered from,
theoretically not clinically. This analysis tacklesissues like depression, domestic slavery, and death wish. We
discuss why this analysis is relevant and why Sexton was chosen for this kind of analysis. In addition, we
prove through such poetic confessions the persona’s profound depression that is a result of the social
oppressions practiced against women. Our choice of textual evidence highlights the lines that show the
persona’s irrational fears and suicidal tendencies in the form of a death wish and as a way out of thesocial,
domestic, and familial imprisonment. The language Sexton uses in describing the way Plath succeeded inher
suicide mission in “Sylvia’s Death” is full of envyand reproach, and it paves the way for Sexton’s “Suicide
Note” to come out as a real note left by the authorbefore her actual suicide eight years later.