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Poetry and art have long gone together as sources of creative expression. Sometimes, these two mediums even intertwine as a poet reflects upon a painting as a starting point for a piece of writing. The poet may interpret what is happening in the scene or what the painter was feeling when creating the masterpiece. Since the poem is an interpretation, it may or may not reflect what you see in the painting. Consider this examples. Robert Fagles chose to write about Vincent Van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night." Study the details of the painting before you interpret the poem. [Look at the painting.] "The Starry Night" by Robert Fagles Long as I paint I feel myself less mad the brush in my hand a lightning rod to madness But never ground that madness execute it ride the lightning up from these benighted streets and steeple up with the cypress look its black is burning green I am that I am it cries it lifts me up the nightfall up the cloudrack coiling like a dragon's flanks a third of the stars in heaven wheeling in its wake wheels in wheels around the moon that cradles round the sun and if I can only trail these whirling eternal stars with one sweep of the brush like Michael's sword if I can cut the life out of the beast - safeguard the mother and the son all heaven will hymn in conflagration blazing down the night the mountain ranges down the claustrophobic valleys of the mad Madness is what I have instead of heaven God deliver me - help me now deliver all this frenzy back into your hands our brushstrokes burning clearer into dawn. What aspect of the painting did Fagles choose to focus on as a starting point for writing? What is the tone of the poem and which reflects more closely what you see as the mood of the painting? What elements of poetry did Fagles use and how did those elements contribute to the poem as a whole? What details of the painting do you see in the poem? Who is the speaker in the poem? Why did Fagles use the pronoun "our" in the last line of his poem? |
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Thank you so much, this help my insight on the poem. It gave me a different view from which to look and now I understand! This is for my English lit. class in college and the questions you used to explain and change my view were so helpful and I shall share them with the class along with my analysis. Thanks so much.
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