Anne Sexton`s poetry has almost become identified with "confessional poetry." But Sexton preferred the term `personal` to `confessional.` Although her poetry alludes to her experiences as her poetic materials, the materials are dealt into a structure of order with the poetic persona. And the persona tells a story about the poet`s own or the other people`s life toward a listener with a multitudes of voices in various states of human being. This act of telling a story to a listener Sexton compares to the slamming into the cement wall of the notebooks. In telling through the poetic persona she distances herself from the poetic material with the poetic persona in each text. The listener in the text is the reader of the poem. So the poet calls up the role of the reader to judge the persona`s messages. Through this method Sexton seems to put the other interlocutor right at the outset in each text and asks the reader to take part in exploring the struggles in her life. In this processes of participating the reader of her poetic text sympathizes with the persona`s story and the poet`s struggles to overcome the despair. Thus the poetic persona embodies the Sexton`s poetic themes and becomes the vehicle which enables the reader to project themselves into the persona`s consciousness and to understand the poet`s life and thought.