Anne Sextons Fascination with Van Goghs Starry Night
In Anne Sextons, The Starry Night, she writes about her interpretation of Van Goghs painting, Starry Night. Her writing isnt necessarily descriptive of the pictures appearance as it is interpretative of the emotions she is feeling while viewing this painting. Van Gogh and Sexton bo....
Cinderella Stories
Cinderella is a love story known to many, if not all, Americans. However, Cinderella isn't part of just the North American culture. It's part of the Chinese, Native American, African, and French cultures as well. Throughout history and cultures there have been many variations of this classic love st....
Re-contextualised fairytales - Cinderella (Anne Sexton) & The Company of Wolves (Angela Carter)
The poem Cinderella by Anne Sexton, and the short story The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter, subvert the values and paradigms of the original patriarchal fairytales, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood; appropriating them into a more contemporary context. The texts focus on the social construct....
Van Gough
Artists have the ability to delve into their inner imagination and create masterpieces from an unseen world. Our brains are a beautiful creation, a gift from God that can discover and unveil and entirely foreign and universe through imagination. Because God made all human beings different, I find ....