Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath: Minds of Distortion and Darkness

Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were both great minds, creative individuals, and some of the greatest poetic individuals of the twentieth century. Though Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were great poets, they were also obsessed with death, darkness, and plagued with manic depression. They yearned for death, and both were able to achieve their life goal of dying. They're poetry is a direct result of their morbid minds and the strange obsessions they shared during they're several years of friendship.
Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton did not pull their style, creativity and ideas out of nowhere. B…