Anne Sexton
Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wings on, testing that strange little tug at his shoulder blade, and think of that first flawless moment over the lawn of the labyrinth. Think of the difference it made! There below are the trees, as awkward as camels; and here are the shocked starlings pumping past and think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well. Larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings! Feel the fire at his neck and see how casually he glances up and is caught, wondrously tunneling into that hot eye. Who cares that he fell back to the sea? See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down while his sensible daddy goes straight into town. To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph, is a poem written by Anne Sexton. The poem is about Icarus and his characteristics as he goes about himself. The rhyme scheme of this poem is "ABABCDCDEFEFGG". The use of this rhyme makes the poem sounds more catchier and catches the readers attention more than if it didn't rhyme. When Sexton talks about how Icarus fell into the sea, the reader can visualize and hear Icarus as he falls into the sea, and probably needing help. The readers can hear Icarus's body as he cuts through the air with his body as he flies, and while he plummets into the ocean. This helps the reader visualize the poem more, and helps them understand what the meaning of the poem is about. I think that the poem itself is about testing your curiosity, because Sexton makes it seems as though Icarus couldn't fly a first due to him pasting his wings, and how he was testing the tug of the wind as he tests himself. He flies through the sky only to fall into the ocean. So it seems as though it is best to test yourself to overcome the odds.
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I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in. Very quick. Very intense, like a wolf at a live heart. Not lazy. When a lazy man, they say, looks toward heaven, the angels close the windows. Oh angels, keep the windows open so that I may reach in and steal each object, objects that tell me the sea is not dying, objects that tell me the dirt has a life-wish, that the Christ who walked for me, walked on true ground and that this frenzy, like bees stinging the heart all morning, will keep the angels with their windows open, wide as an English bathtub. Frenzy by Anne Sexton is a poem about how Sexton wants Heaven to keep their windows open for her. Sexton says that her typewriter types out the God that it believes in. She is saying that she writes poems based around the God through the Christian religion. She in the beginning of the poem, Sexton says that she isn't a lazy person. The reason she said that was because later in the poem she says that Angels close the windows when a (n) lazy man looks upon them. Sexton creates a hopeful tone through the things that she speaks. Sexton says; "Keep the windows open so that I may reach in and steal each object, objects that tell me the sea is not dying, objects that tell me the dirt has a life-wish, that the Christ who walked for me, walked on true ground." She says this to convey the feeling of hope. She hopes that they keep the windows open so that she can know that what she believes in is true and that she can see it for herself. She hopes that it is not some lie or a scam from the way she speaks. She wants them to keep it open so that she knows that the dirt brings life to people, and that when they die, they go back from whence they came. She wants to know that the world isn't ending anytime soon, she wants to know whether or not she can keep on doing what she is doing. It's is as though she doesn't want anyone to be lazy to the world because the windows will soon close, and she will not be able to found out the truths of the world and whether or not what she believes in is true.
House Wife By Anne Sexton Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements. The walls are permanent and pink. See how she sits on her knees all day, faithfully washing herself down. Men enter by force, drawn back like Jonah into their fleshy mothers. A woman is her mother. That's the main thing. Housewife by Anne Sexton is about a housewife's perceptive of a house. The speaker that Anne Sexton talks through is a housewife. The housewife talks as if the house is alive. She gives the house attributes as though it was human. She says, "It has a heart, a mouth, a liver, and bowel movements. She characterizes, the house with human qualities to show her appreciation for her house and how much it means to her to be a mother/woman in a house. She apparently doesn't like men because she describes them as intruders trying to enter the house. To her, the house symbolizes protection and a true feeling of home. She says that women are their own mothers, and that men come in forcing themselves through into their "fleshy mothers". I believe that by saying that women are their mothers, she has a firm belief that women can take care of themselves while men cannot. She makes it seems as though the house is all she needs, by saying that it is "the main thing." It seems as though that she believes that men don't be around as much so it is as though she is married to her house. Therefore she personifies the house as though it is her real husband because it is always there for her no matter what, and it is home to her with protection. The tone that she creates is a sad, yet grateful tone because even though she married a man and he isn't there all the time, she has a house there that is just as much as the man she married. It gives you a sense that even though she sounds so down in the dumps, she is somewhat satisfied.
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