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