Anne Sexton's "The Starry Night": A Poetic Response to Van Gogh's Masterpiece

Authors

  • Jitendra Man Rajbhandari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/sirjana.v10i1.68688

Keywords:

Confessional poet, Ekphrastic, Post-impressionism, Visual art

Abstract

Ekphrastic poetry is a poetic reinterpretation of a visual artwork. There are numerous poems, songs, and lyrics written with inspiration from paintings, sculptures, or photographs. An ekphrastic poem can immortalize a work of art adding a new perspective to it. This paper looks at the tradition of Ekphrastic poetry as a genre and explores Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting The Starry Night through the light of Anne Sexton’s popular ekphrastic poem “The Starry Night”. It observes how Sexton’s poem artfully attempts to capture the spirit of Van Gogh’s painting through words. It also suggests how combining poetry with visual art can enrich both art and literature.

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Published

2024-08-12

How to Cite

Jitendra Man Rajbhandari. (2024). Anne Sexton’s "The Starry Night": A Poetic Response to Van Gogh’s Masterpiece . SIRJANĀ – A Journal Of Arts and Art Education, 10(1), 40–47. https://doi.org/10.3126/sirjana.v10i1.68688

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