The Representation of the Neurotic Mind in Mary Julia Young’s Sonnet “Anxiety”

18th-century poet and novelist Mary Julia Young was a prolific writer supporting herself by writing. She remained biographically obscure literary figure, yet her remarkable life with the experience of anxiety drew attention through poetic discourse narrative. Hence, having earned living from literature, had to stick demands era's fashions. Therefore, this paper investigates clues signs author's real analyses Young's sonnet "Anxiety" in terms representation neurotic mind anxiety. The categorizes type subjective persona as mood disorder. study suggests that implied author experiences neurosis character whereas historical suffers situational neurosis. authorial is afflicted basic simple authorship female writer. conflict between external dilemma internal leads profound inhibition against very act creating, thus, ends poem at its peak Considering who struggled hardships world getting more commercial each day, paper, using terminology Karen Horney Kristeva, argues anxious represented persona, not only reveals but also problems herself.