Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother

The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.

It moves. They are all alive.
Even the moon bulges in its orange irons
to push children, like a god, from its eye.
The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die:

into that rushing beast of the night,
sucked up by that great dragon, to split
from my life with no flag,
no belly,
no cry.


In the picture starry night and poem it feels like the author is trying to say that she is dying or feeling depressed, telling the reader she wants to die

by looking at the picture, I really couldnt see much of meaning to it until i see the stars and wind and in the poem is said that the stars were sucked in by a serpent, maybe the wind is the serpent and taking them away.

Also it showed how the sky felt to her, it feel amazing to her, peaceful, her emotions were the main focus of the attachment of the sky.

ANNE SEXTON- POEM WRITER
VINCENT VAN GOGH- PAINTER.