Starry Night

   Vincent Van Goghs painting and Anne Sextons poem go together almost perfects. Its seems as if they share a similar understanding of eachother and the theme. In some way they both made their works of art peacfully dark in someway.

   Throught the poem the line "oh starry night this is how i want to die" is repeated   over an over. Its as if the author is not afriad if death sneeks up on her. The repetition  of this line kind of shows tht the writer is ready to die, unafraid to die, and if she had to die she would do it right then and there in tht beautiful starry night.

   If you look at the painting you would see bright yellow blobs (the stars) and elegant blue swirls (wind), but if you kind of look closer you see the darker dreary colors and shadows. There is a cypress tree in the painting and that is mentioned in the poem, "One black-haired tree slips up like a drowned women in the hot sky."

   If you really read the poem you would see that the words that are being used are pretty harsh, but are written in such a way that they seem peaceful and maybe even enjoyable. "The unseen serpent swallows up the stars." The linebreak, commas, and periods being used also adds to the slow pace/peaceful feeling of this poem. "Oh starry night this is how I want to die!" the exclamation mark shows excitment. 

   This text makes me wonder if Anne Sexton is writing this poem in the perspective of Vincent or from her in a depressing time. If se is writing from her own perspective than I wonder if her and Vincent are alike and that is why she chose this painting to write off of.