Categories: All - painting - imagery - stars - water

by Fulmer Fulmer 3 years ago

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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'

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Conclusion

Anne Sexton's poem describes the magical place she wants to vist when she dies which is Vincient van Gogh's painting

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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

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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