2. The Bells
Today the circus poster You held my hand
and were instant to explain
is scabbing off the concrete wall the three rings of danger.
and the children have forgotten Oh see the naughty clown
if they knew at all. and the wild parade
Father, do you remember? while love love
Only the sound remains, love grew rings around me.
the distant thump of the good This was the sound where it
elephants, began;
the voice of the ancient lions our breath pounding up to see
and how the bells the flying man breast out
trembled for the flying man. across the boarded sky
I, laughing, and climb the air.
lifted to your high shoulder I remember the color of music
or small at the rough legs of and how forever
strangers, all the trembling bells of you
was not afraid. were mine.
3. What type of poem is it?
It is the love that she remembers when her
father would embrace his arms around with
love and protect her from any harm, The
warmth of her father and protection kept her
safe.
4. Poetic Devices
What the childhood
poem means were
in general is unforgetable.
the memories
that she had
from her
5. Mood/Tone
The mood is like your sad and
missing someone but you still
remember those memories that
has happened in the past.
Tone is that toward her attitude
its like she's mad and is tired of
what she has been living through
all her life
6. Anne Sexton
Born in 1928
suffered from a mental break down
from her family problems
tried to attempted suicide in around the
year 1955
7. Poets life
Anne Sexton was a women try to stop what she was
that has gone through a lot doing before.She began to
of problems in life. She has write poetry. Anne was a
tried to attempt suicide by women of many words.
having her mental
breakdowns but instead she
went to therapy and
decided to write. When she
started to write about what
has happened in her past
life or what can she do to
8. Bibliography
Anne Sexton was a woman that
had many problems and so she
tried her very best to deal with
them, so in order for her to try to
calm herself down she began to
write. She was very talented
and she started to write when
she was in high school.
