Anne Sexton’s poem "45 Mercy Street"
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Anne Sexton’s poem "45 Mercy Street" is a confessional, introspective work in which the speaker obsessively searches for an elusive, possibly imaginary address that symbolizes a lost sense of home, identity, and emotional refuge.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anne Sexton’s poem "45 Mercy Street" canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Anne Sexton’s poem "45 Mercy Street" Context triple: [Mercy Street, hasLyricalReference, Anne Sexton’s poem "45 Mercy Street"]
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poem "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" by William Cullen Bryant
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W. H. Auden’s poem "The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue"
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Anne Sexton’s poem "45 Mercy Street" Target entity description: Anne Sexton’s poem "45 Mercy Street" is a confessional, introspective work in which the speaker obsessively searches for an elusive, possibly imaginary address that symbolizes a lost sense of home, identity, and emotional refuge.
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A.
Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson" is a landmark volume of verse that established Robinson as a major American poet and earned him the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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B.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem "Concord Hymn"
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem "Concord Hymn" is a patriotic work best known for its phrase "the shot heard round the world," commemorating the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
47th Street: Poems
"47th Street: Poems" is a poetry collection by African American writer and journalist Frank Marshall Davis that vividly portrays urban Black life and social realities in early 20th-century America.
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D.
poem "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" by William Cullen Bryant
"The Housatonic at Stockbridge" is a lyric poem by William Cullen Bryant that reflects on the natural beauty and tranquil, moral grandeur of the Housatonic River near Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
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E.
W. H. Auden’s poem "The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue"
W. H. Auden’s "The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue" is a long, introspective poem that explores modern existential disquiet and spiritual crisis through the conversations of four strangers in a New York bar during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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poem ⓘ |
| author | Anne Sexton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralMotif | search for an address ⓘ |
| centralSymbol | elusive address ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
dislocation
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emotional refuge ⓘ memory and loss ⓘ psychological fragmentation ⓘ search for home ⓘ search for identity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
alienation in a city environment
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blurred boundary between memory and imagination ⓘ speaker’s obsessive search for an address ⓘ |
| genre | confessional poetry ⓘ |
| hasImageryOf |
houses
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night or dreamlike settings ⓘ streets ⓘ |
| hasTitleElement | street address ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Confessional poetry movement ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| motif |
dreamlike searching
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repetition of the address ⓘ urban landscape ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first-person speaker ⓘ |
| protagonist | unnamed female speaker ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Anne Sexton’s personal history
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Sexton’s exploration of family and home ⓘ themes of mental illness in Sexton’s work ⓘ |
| style |
confessional
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introspective ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
inability to return to a stable home
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inner psychological landscape ⓘ search for a possibly imaginary place ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
emotional refuge
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fractured identity ⓘ lost sense of home ⓘ psychic destination ⓘ unattainable safety ⓘ |
| tone |
haunting
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melancholic ⓘ obsessive ⓘ |
| usesDevice |
dream logic
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imagery ⓘ repetition ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
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Subject: Anne Sexton’s poem "45 Mercy Street" Description of subject: Anne Sexton’s poem "45 Mercy Street" is a confessional, introspective work in which the speaker obsessively searches for an elusive, possibly imaginary address that symbolizes a lost sense of home, identity, and emotional refuge.
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