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The Starry Night- Poem - Coggle Diagram
The Starry Night- Poem
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Background
Anne Sexton and Vincent van Gough connect through the painting. Both depressed and unhappy with their lives.
Main Idea 1
The poem beings with this epigraph of van Gough's letter to his brother. The epigraph is major importance to the poems theme connecting nature and death.
Main Idea 2
In the first stanza. She beings by saying the town does not exist that's mean the town is very quiet and peaceful. In the line two and three she uses simile and personification to give the tree black hair that is blowing in the wind like a drowned woman. In the last line, Anne wants to die peacefully in a serene place.
Main Idea 3
In the second stanza, she uses a simile to compare the moon to God's eye watching over the children. She also uses alliteration to repeat the "S" sound " unseen serpents wallows the stars " to make the poem flow more smoothly. " Oh starry night! This is how i want to die" is repeated twice throughout the poem to emphasize the importance of the phrase to the theme
Main Idea 4
In the third stanza, she sums up the ways she wants to die using symbolism. The " rushing beast of the night" represents the night. The" great dragon"symbolizes the wind. Finally, she wants to die quickly and peacefully with "no flag, no belly, no cry".
Summary
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She wants to go willingly, bravely, and on her own terms.
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