Presentations

For the oral presentation i chose to use Samuel Coleridge and Anne Sexton. I came to this decision through brief and random research and found their lives to be interesting. Being a psychology major I found interest in their mental struggles in life and thought it would be interesting to see how their writing was influenced. Through reading their poetry so far, Coleridge is giving me some difficulty, especially relative to Sexton's work. Coleridge who lived in 1800 uses a very different/older style of English that makes it difficult to pick up on certain aspects of his work. In most cases ive had to re-read each piece multiple times to only grasp a basic understanding. Ive started to pick up on his style and become familiar but the diction will continue to be an obstacle. On the other hand, Anne Sext0n's work is relatively easy to understand. So far a lot of her stuff is pretty dark so her depression is evident.