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

The character of Christ appears throughout Sexton's collection, but he is most notably portrayed in the section of The Book of Folly entitled "The Jesus Papers." In this series of poems, the author represents Christ alternately as egotistical, cunning, flawed, well meaning, and genuinely redemptive. Sexton demystifies the gospel stories by making Jesus both sympathetic and utterly human, although within this heresy she allows Christ to retain some of his divine qualities.