Who is Briar Rose from The Complete Poems and what is their importance? The_Complete_Poems English & Literature Briar Rose | The Complete Poems

Briar Rose is the princess in Sleeping Beauty. Pricked by a cursed spinning wheel, she is cast into a hundred-year sleep, eventually released from the curse by a prince who kisses her. In Sexton's version of the story, however, Briar Rose doesn't have a happily ever after. Instead, she becomes an insomniac.