Starry Night By: Anne sexton

    I think that this poem has lots of meaning behind it because it shows a lot

of emotion. What really liked about this sonnet is that it has a small quote at

 the top heading. The quote says that he has a terrible need of religion. And

that after he goes out to paint the stars at night. I think that this quote or

excerpt has some meaning. And that you just have to be able to understand

what van gogh was trying to tell his brother in the letter. 

   In the poem there was little repetition and some rhyme. The repetition I

thought was really cool how the poet said “I want to die” at the end of the

first to paragraphs. These were my favorite two lines in the sonnet because

I thought that this line was the one line with more significance out of all of

them. I thought the author was trying to show how the person inside the

poem was feeling at the time. 

     I think that the poet was trying to express her feelings or what she

thought van gogh was feeling because she uses a lot of like death like

words. For example another line that was interesting was the one that said

“my life with no flag.” I thought that this line could have multiple meanings.

Like maybe she was trying to say that his life had no meaning, or that his life

 was worthless. I also thought that maybe it meant that his life had no

boundaries or end.

   In the end I thought that this was a very well composed sonnet, I thought

that it had lots of emotions and feelings.