Everything you need to understand or teach Courage by Anne Sexton.
"Courage" appears in Anne Sexton's eighth and last collection of original poems, The Awful Rowing Toward God, published by Houghton Mifflin, in 1975, a year after her suicide. It is the seventh poem in the collection, most of which were initially written to be a part of her 1974 collection, The Death Notebooks . The religious tone of the Rowing poems, however, dictated another book. Like many of the poems in the collection, "Courage" universalizes the...