"Her Kind" by Anne Sexton is a poem that has the theme of truth, truth of one's self. The first stanza is "Her Kind" is about Sexton describing herself as a witch. She considers herself to be a witch because she likes walking outside at night, she says she is possessed. I think by being possessed she means by her mental illness and by trying to figure out why she likes doing things that aren't considered normal. She says she "dreams evil" as in maybe dreaming of having freedom. In stanza two, she talks about herself as a housewife. She describes her duties as a housewife through a cave, cooking for worms, and cave being her womb. In the last stanza, she describes herself as improper. She talks about "waving her nude arms" and the intensity
