I'm excited to start this year off...with poetry!!!
We discussed Anne Sexton's poem "Her Kind" in class today, and went over the following terms:
Persona: Latin for "mask"; the fictional person created to be the speaker of a poem.
Speaker: fictional character who gives the poem the point of view/perspective.
It is super, super, super important to understand that the speaker is not the poet!!!
For homework, make sure you write your own 3 stanza poem, with the repetition of "Her Kind," with your own created persona.
Have fun!!
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