The poetry by Anne Sexton and the Cultural Industry

Abstract

This article seeks to interpret the importance of the poetic reflection about the Cultural Industry in Anne Sexton’s work. Frequently compared to Sylvia Plath, Sexton elaborates, in effect, a poetic diction marked by neo-surrealism, seeking the elements of the discourse of the cultural industry, such as the horoscope, the tale, the language of the marks. In this sense, Sexton’s poetry also reveals his non-romantic traits and attentive to the poetics of the surrealist object originated in the ready-made. The poetics of horror, inherent to the unutterable character of the surrealist situation of the object participates in this poetic diction torn apart by symbolic violence. By establishing a relationship with the magical-religious function, the language of the cultural industry also claims the real impact on reality.