poetry

Analyzing Poetry
CINDERELLA
Anne Sexton (1928 – 1974)
You always read about it:
the plumber with twelve children
who wins the Irish Sweepstakes
from toilets to riches.
That story.
In this first paragraph the author is beginning to write his poem with the sentence: “You always read about it” what give us a precipitated impression of the poem, we know he is going to write about something familiar to everybody.
Or the nursemaid,
some luscious sweet from Denmark
who captures the oldest son’s heart.
From diapers to Dior.
That Story. While I am reading the poem, I realized that the author is giving some examples of how some storie’s situations can be really ironic.
Or a milkman who serves the wealthy,
eggs, cream, butter, yogurt, milk,
the white truck like an ambulance
who goes into real estate
and makes a pile.
From homogenized to martinis at lunch.
With sentences like: “From homogenized to martinis at lunch” “From Diapers to Dior” “Fr...