After a few rereading and a small exchange of views regarding the poem, I could infer that Anne Sexton's The Fury of Overshoes, is a poem that speaks about anger, about wrath.
Not that it is simply limited to the frustrations of a child not being able to have all that he or she longs for but the frustrations of every individual of not achieving their ideal self, the self one is deemed of becoming. This is the major dilemma of a person, to be able to establish one's self, to self-actualize. But unfortunately self-actualization does not just happen through taking giant leaps but instead, it takes small steps. Just as a fertilized egg does not turn into an infant in a wink of an eye, so as an infant would not turn into a kid in a second, no, everything runs smoothly, it runs and undergoes a process of development. And this process often involves stepping into the snow (going above others), feeling cold (solitude, as if the world has turn its back)and getting wet (embracing misfortunes).
Not that it is simply limited to the frustrations of a child not being able to have all that he or she longs for but the frustrations of every individual of not achieving their ideal self, the self one is deemed of becoming. This is the major dilemma of a person, to be able to establish one's self, to self-actualize. But unfortunately self-actualization does not just happen through taking giant leaps but instead, it takes small steps. Just as a fertilized egg does not turn into an infant in a wink of an eye, so as an infant would not turn into a kid in a second, no, everything runs smoothly, it runs and undergoes a process of development. And this process often involves stepping into the snow (going above others), feeling cold (solitude, as if the world has turn its back)and getting wet (embracing misfortunes).
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