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

The Virigin Mary is the main character in the poem, The Jesus Papers, though she makes appearances in many of Sexton's poems. Sexton portrays Mary as a victim of circumstance, though she also notes that the Immaculate Conception gives her a powerful kind of proto-feminism.