Sylvia Plath's Confessional Poem is a twenty-line free poem composed of ten couplet stanzas that illustrate death as a state in which our imperfections are ignored. The subject of the poem is a woman who has been "perfected" in death, freed from her own personal suffering. For Plath, death seems like an accomplishment, and like the woman in the poem, Plath feels that she will eventually become "perfect" when she too is dead. By not using the first person, Plath causes “the depersonalization of the woman” and, as a result, the woman is distanced from the reader. This could possibly foreshadow how Plath herself withdrew from life and people as she became increasingly plagued by depression and anxiety. Plath uses short lines and sparse words almost as a reflection of her own "exhaustion and impending death." She seems to have almost nothing left to say, but she silently rejoices in the idea of ​​the inevitability of her suicide. Plath chooses to distribute single clauses throughout different stanzas, emphasizing the gloom she is experiencing. 'His death//The body bears the smile of accomplishment, /The illusion of a Greek necessity//Flows in the swirls of his toga.' The woman in the poem seems to overshadow Sylvia Plath's thoughts and feelings, as the woman "smiles with accomplishment" at the thought of death and the finality of the end, Plath smiles too. Both women are smiling because they have come so far and done so much that their feet have nowhere to take them. “We’ve come this far, it’s over.” They achieved everything they could. The idea that a woman can only be at peace and “perfected” once she has died. Fulfillment comes only in death. Sylvia Plath creates a disconcerting atmosphere middle of paper...... Sexton's "Wanting to Die" is written in the first person and has a conversational tone. Like Plath's confessional poem "Edge," Anne Sexton's "Wanting to Die" has been considered "one of her literary suicide notes." Throughout the poem, the speaker struggles to justify her suicidal thoughts and feelings. Using first person perspective allows the reader to feel some of the revelation the speaker seems to be making. In the first stanza, Sexton seems troubled and confused about her suicidal thoughts. She seems to go through life in a depressed state, not knowing where to go or what to do. The speaker seems to have lost all meaning in life and yet Anne Sexton appears almost blasé about the possibility of death. This is noted in the opening lines of the first stanza: "Since you asked, most of the time I don't remember..’