Concept Paper
Introduction
Vincient van Gogh's painting and Anne Sexton's poem about the painting
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.
P1
visual imagry
black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky
night boils with eleven stars
unseen serpent swallows up the stars
moon bulges in its orange irons to push children, like a god, fromm its eye
water
drowning
sky looks like water
the whole poem has lots of water imargy
painting looks like it sould be under water
P2
how painting is magical
the stars are very bright and light up the sky
the sky looks like its flowing (water)(arora boriallis)
the little town looks like a dream
curch reaching for the sky
very homie looking with lots of the lights on in the town
Conclusion
Anne Sexton's poem describes the magical place she wants to vist when she dies which is Vincient van Gogh's painting