Anne Sexton classified as a confessional poet, one who writes real, deeply, and hidden details of one's life Sexton's poetry was so confessional that it was hard to distinguish if she was writing about her life or if it was just imagination. Sexton's poetry dealt with subjects that others found very inappropriate for poetry, especially at this time when Sexton was writing. She wrote about topics that people-women faced every day, but did not talk about so openly and publicly. Some tho