What Is The Mood Of The Poem Cinderella By Anne Sexton
Amanda Buzzeo
English 102
Professor Barnard
The two poems “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton and “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick are both radically different in their own way. The authors both have a different way of thinking. The first poem that will be analyzed is “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton. The Bibliography states “Sexton transform this tale not by changing its details but by using tone and imagery that mocks the happily-ever-after motif of fairy tales” (Aguero 2002). Anne Sexton is creating this poem by telling a parody and more as a non-serious but yet kind of gory poem. The story that Anne was telling in the beginning of the poem was three types of stories that would have a happy ending and she would refer at the end of the story that it …show more content…
However this is poem is quite different than the other poems that I have read. This poem is not your average “fairytale” because some of the things that happen in this poem would not ordinarily happen in a fairytale. As in lines 68 through 94 it explains the whole scenario about how Cinderella went to the ball and so happened to dance with the prince while her step mother and step sisters were there not noticing that Cinderella was there. Although in the original Cinderella story you would picture Cinderella running away from the prince and leaving her slipper behind, and not being able to get it back because she had to get home before she would get in trouble by her stepmother. The author states in the poem when Cinderella had to leave the ball “The prince walked her home and she disappeared into the pigeon house and although the prince took an axe and broke it open she was gone. Back to her cinders (Sexton 70).” As the poem goes on it also states about when the prince is trying to find the woman that he dance with and left her slipper behind. Anne Sexton states in her poem in lines 79 through 94 “He went to their house and the two sisters were delighted
English 102
Professor Barnard
The two poems “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton and “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick are both radically different in their own way. The authors both have a different way of thinking. The first poem that will be analyzed is “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton. The Bibliography states “Sexton transform this tale not by changing its details but by using tone and imagery that mocks the happily-ever-after motif of fairy tales” (Aguero 2002). Anne Sexton is creating this poem by telling a parody and more as a non-serious but yet kind of gory poem. The story that Anne was telling in the beginning of the poem was three types of stories that would have a happy ending and she would refer at the end of the story that it …show more content…
However this is poem is quite different than the other poems that I have read. This poem is not your average “fairytale” because some of the things that happen in this poem would not ordinarily happen in a fairytale. As in lines 68 through 94 it explains the whole scenario about how Cinderella went to the ball and so happened to dance with the prince while her step mother and step sisters were there not noticing that Cinderella was there. Although in the original Cinderella story you would picture Cinderella running away from the prince and leaving her slipper behind, and not being able to get it back because she had to get home before she would get in trouble by her stepmother. The author states in the poem when Cinderella had to leave the ball “The prince walked her home and she disappeared into the pigeon house and although the prince took an axe and broke it open she was gone. Back to her cinders (Sexton 70).” As the poem goes on it also states about when the prince is trying to find the woman that he dance with and left her slipper behind. Anne Sexton states in her poem in lines 79 through 94 “He went to their house and the two sisters were delighted