A few days ago
Anonymous

Need help Anne Sexton’s “Starry Night”?

That does not keep me from having a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars.

–Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother

The town does not exist

except where one black-haired tree slips

up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.

The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.

Oh starry starry night! This is how

I want to die.

It moves. They are all alive.

Even the moon bulges in its orange irons

to push children, like a god, from its eye.

The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.

Oh starry starry night! This is how

I want to die:

into that rushing beast of the night,

sucked up by that great dragon, to split

from my life with no flag,

no belly,

no cry.

I need an analysys of the poem I’m asking this because english is my second language i dont understand it.This poem is referencing to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Starry Night”

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A few days ago
Anonymous

Favorite Answer

Firstly, it’s a vivid description of the painting itself. Secondly, it’s a poetic masterpiece. Thirdly, it is the tale of the great mystery that lies behind space and time. What else is a painting( or a master poem) than a portrait of space in time? It’s a huge concept. Corageous and true to the bone.
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