Starry Night by Sexton and The Great Wave by Hokusai

In The Starry Night, Sexton prefaces her work with a quite from Vincent van Gogh, the tortured painter. The quote is extremely significant to SextonÆs poem, primarily because it expresses that despite the painterÆs inability to believe in eternal life, he finds solace and religion in the forces of nature. Despite his reluctance to utter the word religion, which conveys traditional connotations or organized religion, he informs us that his need for spirituality sends him out at night to paint the stars. In SextonÆs poem whose title plays off of one of van GoghÆs most famous paintings, Starry Night, we see that the author similarly disdains the isolation of human existence but has a vast appreciation for nature. Like van Gogh, nature appears to be all the religion and spirituality the speaker of the poem needs, ôThe night boils with eleven stars / Oh starry night! This is how / I want to dieö (Sexton 1961, 1).

Sexton (1961) uses simile to describe nature, as a ôblack-haired tree sl

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ad an entire routine in place to conceal my activities from my parents. I would take mouthwash, eye drops, and perfume with me so I could mask my condition when I got home. I would enter the house and make up whatever excuse I could to avoid contact with my parents, heading straight for my room saying I was tired or had homework to finish. At school I noticed that I was more accepted because of my association with this crowd of girls. It gave me a great deal of pleasure to be considered one among this group of girls, instead of being considered different. At the time, it also made me feel like I was ôcoolö, because I was accepted by this group of girls. Everything I desired seemed to be coming to fruition, though I often experienced guilt over indulging in behaviors I knew were unacceptable to my parents and the lies I told them. Still, my desire for acceptance made me risk losing their respect and I continued partying with these girls. Everything went well until one night on the way home from a party that was even more wild than most of the ones we attended, my friend lost control of the vehicle and we crashed into the car in front of us. While none of my friends or I or the people in the car we hit were injured, I became
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Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page)