Analyzing Cinderella by Anne Sexton
Cinderella
Cinderella is a childhood fairytale that we all love and remember. It is a tragedy that turns into love and happily ever after in the end. In contrast to this popular story, Anne Sexton's version of Cinderella is a dark and twisted version of the classic fairy tale. It takes on a whole new perspective and is fairly different from the childhood fairytale that most of society knows. The poem takes less of a focus on the happy ever after in Cinderella and makes it into vivid bloody and violent images. She retreats more toward the pain and neglect. The poem is not based off the Disney version of Cinderella, but rather original dark version by Brothers Grimm. Sexton uses a very sarcastic and ironic tone and mocks the unrealistic "rags to riches" stories. The use of irony and sarcasm makes the genre of the poem satirical poetry. The poem is a modern, free verse poem that contains nine stanzas. Sexton leads in with four short stories that use repetition as a literary device to verify her version of Cinderella. She uses these stanzas to say that the stories are all myths just like Cinderella. Anne Sexton uses many literary devices such as irony, similes, metaphors, repetition, and symbolism and the idea or social issues to portray that the story of Cinderella is unrealistic. For Sexton, the 'happily ever after' that society chases after does not exist. Anne Sexton wrote this poem to show that fairy tales are not real. This kind of life does not exist in the real world. No matter how hard one tries to find this fantasy, it will never happen.She mocks this poem to show that this is a dream world and society goes after this illusion in their head that will never come true because it is a fantasy. In our current society, children are brain washed into thinking that everything in life is always fine and dandy when in reality, it is not always great and happy.Sexton starts the poem off with a sarcastic tone saying, "You always read
Cinderella is a childhood fairytale that we all love and remember. It is a tragedy that turns into love and happily ever after in the end. In contrast to this popular story, Anne Sexton's version of Cinderella is a dark and twisted version of the classic fairy tale. It takes on a whole new perspective and is fairly different from the childhood fairytale that most of society knows. The poem takes less of a focus on the happy ever after in Cinderella and makes it into vivid bloody and violent images. She retreats more toward the pain and neglect. The poem is not based off the Disney version of Cinderella, but rather original dark version by Brothers Grimm. Sexton uses a very sarcastic and ironic tone and mocks the unrealistic "rags to riches" stories. The use of irony and sarcasm makes the genre of the poem satirical poetry. The poem is a modern, free verse poem that contains nine stanzas. Sexton leads in with four short stories that use repetition as a literary device to verify her version of Cinderella. She uses these stanzas to say that the stories are all myths just like Cinderella. Anne Sexton uses many literary devices such as irony, similes, metaphors, repetition, and symbolism and the idea or social issues to portray that the story of Cinderella is unrealistic. For Sexton, the 'happily ever after' that society chases after does not exist. Anne Sexton wrote this poem to show that fairy tales are not real. This kind of life does not exist in the real world. No matter how hard one tries to find this fantasy, it will never happen.She mocks this poem to show that this is a dream world and society goes after this illusion in their head that will never come true because it is a fantasy. In our current society, children are brain washed into thinking that everything in life is always fine and dandy when in reality, it is not always great and happy.Sexton starts the poem off with a sarcastic tone saying, "You always read