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anne sexton- cinderella

Anonymous — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:13:51 GMT

could anyone please help me with finding poetic devices and outlining and possible themes....

You always read about it:
the plumber with the twelve children
who wins the Irish Sweepstakes.
From toilets to riches.
That story.

Or the nursemaid,
some luscious sweet from Denmark
who captures the oldest son's heart.
from diapers to Dior.
That story.

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.

Or the charwoman
who is on the bus when it cracks up
and collects enough from the insurance.
From mops to Bonwit Teller.
That story.

Once
the wife of a rich man was on her deathbed
and she said to her daughter Cinderella:
Be devout. Be good. Then I will smile
down from heaven in the seam of a cloud.
The man took another wife who had
two daughters, pretty enough
but with hearts like blackjacks.
Cinderella was their maid.
She slept on the sooty hearth each night
and walked around looking like Al Jolson.
Her father brought presents home from town,
jewels and gowns for the other women
but the twig of a tree for Cinderella.
She planted that twig on her mother's grave
and it grew to a tree where a white dove sat.
Whenever she wished for anything the dove
would drop it like an egg upon the ground.
The bird is important, my dears, so heed him.

Next came the ball, as you all know.
It was a marriage market.
The prince was looking for a wife.
All but Cinderella were preparing
and gussying up for the event.
Cinderella begged to go too.
Her stepmother threw a dish of lentils
into the cinders and said: Pick them
up in an hour and you shall go.
The white dove brought all his friends;
all the warm wings of the fatherland came,
and picked up the lentils in a jiffy.
No, Cinderella, said the stepmother,
you have no clothes and cannot dance.
That's the way with stepmothers.

Cinderella went to the tree at the grave
and cried forth like a gospel singer:
Mama! Mama! My turtledove,
send me to the prince's ball!
The bird dropped down a golden dress
and delicate little slippers.
Rather a large package for a simple bird.
So she went. Which is no surprise.
Her stepmother and sisters didn't
recognize her without her cinder face
and the prince took her hand on the spot
and danced with no other the whole day.

As nightfall came she thought she'd better
get home. 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.
These events repeated themselves for three days.
However on the third day the prince
covered the palace steps with cobbler's wax
and Cinderella's gold shoe stuck upon it.
Now he would find whom the shoe fit
and find his strange dancing girl for keeps.
He went to their house and the two sisters
were delighted because they had lovely feet.
The eldest went into a room to try the slipper on
but her big toe got in the way so she simply
sliced it off and put on the slipper.
The prince rode away with her until the white dove
told him to look at the blood pouring forth.
That is the way with amputations.
They just don't heal up like a wish.
The other sister cut off her heel
but the blood told as blood will.
The prince was getting tired.
He began to feel like a shoe salesman.
But he gave it one last try.
This time Cinderella fit into the shoe
like a love letter into its envelope.

At the wedding ceremony
the two sisters came to curry favor
and the white dove pecked their eyes out.
Two hollow spots were left
like soup spoons.

Cinderella and the prince
lived, they say, happily ever after,
like two dolls in a museum case
never bothered by diapers or dust,
never arguing over the timing of an egg,
never telling the same story twice,
never getting a middle-aged spread,
their darling smiles pasted on for eternity.
Regular Bobbsey Twins.
That story.

Re: Please check the grammar of my essay and critic it.

pilita — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:29:52 GMT

I like your essay. Your thinking is clear and your writing is quite clear too.but you need to be more specific in some points.

The main point of Araby, The Things They Carried and A&P is men' s feelings of love. They are all in the world of fantasy of romance that incites them to hasty acts and lead away from actuality. However, they undergo the collapse of imaginations that play in their heads because of collision of such fantasies with cruel reality. Love is a beautiful feeling to which we open our hearts and souls to the people whom we have deep feeling for[I like this sentence]. In the three readings, each character experiences different type of love that involves into deep thoughts about themselves and their life.

The theme of Araby is about an innocent love. The main character of the story is a young boy who displays signs of adolescent love towards a young girl that[who] lives in the same building. This is a perfect setting for romance to seed and nourish. The boy demonstrates his attraction to the young girl next door by waiting for her day after day and daydreaming about her. "Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door... When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. I ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. I kept her brown figure always in my eye...â. This is a good explanation of first love because for the first time young person doesnât control feeling.He [the boy] just feels what he feels and does what his feelings tell him to do.
This love is going from a heart not from a head. The boy also has uncontrollable thoughts on her, he pointed all details; her clothing wrapping around her body, her rope like hair and her soft, smooth neck. Yet, something in the young boy prohibits him from his love to the girl. He waits in the shadows for her from the street; he looks for her from behind the blinds from the safety of his home, he trembles when he thinks about her.

In the other side, on the reading The Things They Carried the author[it doesn't sound right], Tim O'Brien, presents us a platonic love. This love appears in the character Lieutenant Jimmy Cross to a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. An example of this love is: "They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack." So, Jimmy Cross understands that Martha doesnât love him even though she is writing letters to him. The letters weighed ten ounces. They were signed Love, Martha , but Lieutenant Cross understand that Love was only a way of signing and did not mean what he sometimes pretended it meant. " Like in Araby in The Things They Carried authors show deep feeling from the men's side and no answer from girls. Jimmy Cross's love for Martha was so strong that she was constantly on his mind and a priority in his life. The daydreaming about Martha is a way that Cross took himself completely away from the war. He could be thousands of miles away on a quiet beach in Jersey as the war raged on around him. Like in Araby this dreaming is escaping from reality, from cruelty to the romance and happiness.
The last story "A&P" related to the others mostly by Sammy' desire to change his life by quitting his job that revealed after he saw girls in bathing suits in the store. Like Jimmy Cross desires to be far away from a war at the beach with Martha and was there in his head, Sammy wants to have another life. Like Jimmy Cross[,] who doesnât know what he is doing in the war, Sammy doesnât know why he is in this store and doing this boring job. The only thing that gives him the courage to quit, is his attraction to Queenie, love makes him strong. Sammyâs entire world consists of the grocery store, which is artificially heated and cooled, and has everything one could ever need in the way of food and many other products. One day, when three girls walk into the store, Sammy is strongly attracted to one of them. " She kept her eyes moving across the racks, and stopped, and turned so slow it made my stomach rub the inside of my apron..." Similar to Arabyâs boy whose heart leaped when he saw young girl Sammyâs Queennie arouses his interest. Later, when the manager warns the girls not to return to the store if they are wearing swimsuits, Sammy tries to come to their rescue by standing up to his boss, and even quits his job for them. In other words, Sammy is, or wants to be, their knight in shining armor--] he wants to rescue his Queen. Like boy in the Araby and Jimmy Cross in A&P [,]Sammy also fells heartache and sorrowful emotions.
In all three stories main characters experience deep feeling and conflict with themselves. Love can be happiness or can destroy if a person is not control his emotions and feelings.

Please check the grammar of my essay and critic it.

lanatim — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 22:32:17 GMT

The main point of Araby, The Things They Carried and A&P is men' s feelings of love. They are all in the world of fantasy of romance that incites them to hasty acts and lead away from actuality. However, they undergo the collapse of imaginations that play in their heads because of collision of such fantasies with cruel reality. Love is a beautiful feeling to which we open our hearts and souls to the people whom we have deep feeling for. In the three readings, each character experiences different type of love that involves into deep thoughts about themselves and their life.
The theme of Araby is about an innocent love. The main character of the story is a young boy who displays signs of adolescent love towards a young girl that lives in the same building. This is a perfect setting for romance to seed and nourish. The boy demonstrates his attraction to the young girl next door by waiting for her day after day and daydreaming about her. "Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door... When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. I ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. I kept her brown figure always in my eye...â. This is a good explanation of first love because for the first time young person doesnât control feeling. He just feels what he feels and does what his feelings tell him to do. This love is going from a heart not from a head. The boy also has uncontrollable thoughts on her, he pointed all details; her clothing wrapping around her body, her rope like hair and her soft, smooth neck. Yet, something in the young boy prohibits him from his love to the girl. He waits in the shadows for her from the street; he looks for her from behind the blinds from the safety of his home, he trembles when he thinks about her.
In the other side, on the reading The Things They Carried the author, Tim O'Brien, presents us a platonic love. This love appears in the character Lieutenant Jimmy Cross to a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. An example of this love is: "They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack." So, Jimmy Cross understands that Martha doesnât love him even though she is writing letters to him. The letters weighed ten ounces. They were signed Love, Martha , but Lieutenant Cross understand that Love was only a way of signing and did not mean what he sometimes pretended it meant. " Like in Araby in The Things They Carried authors show deep feeling from the men's side and no answer from girls. Jimmy Cross's love for Martha was so strong that she was constantly on his mind and a priority in his life. The daydreaming about Martha is a way that Cross took himself completely away from the war. He could be thousands of miles away on a quiet beach in Jersey as the war raged on around him. Like in Araby this dreaming is escaping from reality, from cruelty to the romance and happiness.
The last story "A&P" related to the others mostly by Sammy' desire to change his life by quitting his job that revealed after he saw girls in bathing suits in the store. Like Jimmy Cross desires to be far away from a war at the beach with Martha and was there in his head, Sammy wants to have another life. Like Jimmy Cross who doesnât know what he is doing in the war, Sammy doesnât know why he is in this store and doing this boring job. The only thing that gives him the courage to quit, is his attraction to Queenie, love makes him strong. Sammyâs entire world consists of the grocery store, which is artificially heated and cooled, and has everything one could ever need in the way of food and many other products. One day, when three girls walk into the store, Sammy is strongly attracted to one of them. " She kept her eyes moving across the racks, and stopped, and turned so slow it made my stomach rub the inside of my apron..." Similar to Arabyâs boy whose heart leaped when he saw young girl Sammyâs Queennie arouses his interest. Later, when the manager warns the girls not to return to the store if they are wearing swimsuits, Sammy tries to come to their rescue by standing up to his boss, and even quits his job for them. In other words, Sammy is, or wants to be, their knight in shining armor: he wants to rescue his Queen. Like boy in the Araby and Jimmy Cross in A&P Sammy also fells heartache and sorrowful emotions.
In all three stories main characters experience deep feeling and conflict with themselves. Love can be happiness or can destroy if a person is not control his emotions and feelings.