Anne Sexton's poem "The Starry Night" explores her interpretation of Vincent van Gogh's iconic painting, depicting it as a mystical realm she wishes to visit after death. Through vivid visual imagery, Sexton conveys the painting'
Anne Sexton's poem describes the magical place she wants to vist when she dies which is Vincient van Gogh's painting
P2
how painting is magical
the little town looks like a dream
very homie looking with lots of the lights on in the town
curch reaching for the sky
the sky looks like its flowing (water)(arora boriallis)
the stars are very bright and light up the sky
P1
visual imagry
water
the whole poem has lots of water imargy
painting looks like it sould be under water
sky looks like water
drowning
moon bulges in its orange irons to push children, like a god, fromm its eye
unseen serpent swallows up the stars
night boils with eleven stars
black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky
Introduction
Thesis: In Anne Sexton's poem "The Stary Night" she uses visual imagry to show how she interprets Van Gogh's Starry Night as a magical place she wants to vist when she dies.
Vincient van Gogh's painting and Anne Sexton's poem about the painting