Maxine Kumin

Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin grew to be friends during a poetry workshop in Boston. Their confessional style poetry guided them into writing three children’s novels together and assisting each other in their writing, which strengthened their friendship further. Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin scatter similes and metaphors to bring the reader into a feeling of nostalgia through the themes of a favorite childhood fairy tale and friendship. Both poets accomplish this through a sarcastic tone, and but Sexton’s sarcasm is filtered to appear joyful while Kumin’s sarcasm is meant to emphasize an established friendship. In Sexton’s “Cinderella”, the placement of similes and metaphors pulls the reader into a feeling of nostalgia from their childhood and former friendships. In “Cinderella”, there is an unfortunate twist. The “Happily Ever After” that adults and children alike find solace in, never comes. The uncertainty at the end of the poem…

honorary degrees, and held professorships at Colgate University and Boston University” (www.poetryfoundation.org). Anne’s work left a huge mark on the world she left behind, as displayed by her numerous awards and honors. Her later works were far less acknowledged, on account of her downward spiral into addiction and madness. However, one award-- worth all of the attention it got-- was given in 1967, “...at the height of her career, Sexton won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for the book Live or…

Maxine Kumin is a prominent female writer and her writings have left a mark on the hearts of feminists. She was born on June 6, 1925 and recently died on February 6, 2014. Before she passed away, Kumin actively voiced her strong support of women accomplishing their goals and performing their desired careers. However, this is not her only key theme throughout her works. She often writes about identity, the monetary nature of life, loss, and man’s relationship with nature (Poetry Foundation). To…

It can be hard to limit yourself when facing a new situation. Some handle it better than others, but some can spiral out of control and it’s too late for them. Others can own up to their actions and try to make up for what they have done. In “Woodchucks”, Maxine Kumin uses metaphors, characterization, and word choice to say it’s easier to get something over and done with before it gets out of hand, because things may not end up as planned. The poem begins with the line “Gassing the woodchucks…

The Danger of Paranoia The poem “Woodchucks”, by Maxine Kumin includes a speaker that kills because of paranoia. The speaker kills the woodchucks because he/she believes that the woodchucks deliberately try to hurt him/her by attacking his/her garden. The speaker creates the tone of paranoia that the woodchucks fight against him/her and uses that paranoia as justification to become a killer. The poet uses the speaker’s tone to show the danger of a person who can change quickly into an immoral…

While reading the poem, “The Sound of Night” by Maxine Kumin it explores the creatures of what they do at night while we are sleeping. The reader might be camping with another person and they are falling asleep among the unknown creatures of the night. They seem to be frighten by the noises around them, so they wait patiently until the sun rise. The reader has an uneasy feeling. The first part of the poem, the reader and the campers experiencing the same trembling fear. These noises are loud,…

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In Amy Tan’s essay, Mother Tongue, Tan discusses her struggles growing up as an Asian-American born to Chinese immigrants. She examines certain aspects of the language she speaks and writes, against the language her mother speaks and writes. Amy has a keen grip on “proper” English, most likely due to her being raised in America. Alternatively, Tan’s mother speaks in fragments of English due to her being an immigrant who fled China’s Cultural Revolution (Amy, 1990). Tan realises her different…

Can you survive in the woods, alone, in the cold? In order to survive in conditions like those you have to have extreme survival skills. In the articles “My escape from N.K.”, “Trapped,” and the movie “Lone Survivor,” these characters had these skills to survive. It takes courage, endurance, and intelligence to be a survivor. Courage is used in survival because if you don’t believe in yourself then you won’t think that you are going to survive. Courage is used in the story, “My escape from…

However, sometimes we are proud of some memories that impress us, and we will always remember them. But what if our parents, traditions or our culture are not that remarkable for us? Should we adjust with them, or regret the moment we had with them? Both Elizabeth Wong and Maxine Hong Kingston wrote about their association with their heritage regarding some traditions. For instance, Kingston opens her article “The Catfish and the Bathtub” with a lengthy list of Chinese foods that Kingston’s…