The aim of this paper is to explain the theory of self-reflexivity in some of the early poems of the American poet, Anne Sexton (1928Sexton ( -1974)).Self-reflexivity and narcissistic narrative were identified and the role of the mirror stage/image was highlighted based on in the French theorist Jacques Lacan's "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience" (1949...