The_Starry_Night

The Starry Night The Starry Night Anne Sexton poem The Starry Night reflects the Vincent von Gogh’s painting The Starry Night very well. If one was to do a little research into the lives of the writer and the artist they would find that they were kind of in the same path in life when they did these two works. Sexton mood in the poem matches the one in the painting. The two works have a lot in common and that could be because of the creator’s lifestyle. Van Gogh painting “The Starry Night was completed near the mental asylum of Saint-Remy, 13 months before Van Gogh's death” (online 1) and Sexton were depressed most of the time. Though there is not much information on Van Gogh’s life, we can see form Sexton’s life why she was inspired by this painting. She had tried to commit suicide a number of times because she was obviously not happy with her life. She was searching for comfort and when she could not find it in her parents she found it in her aunt who died later on and that made her more depressed. She was not happy in her marriage starry, poem, night, painting, life, very, because, way, van, that’s, self, one, depressed, two, sexton, restful, die, depressing, death, world, works, work, while, tried, tree, suicide, successful, sky, sense, selves, really, peaceful, parents, others, number