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An Analysis Of "To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph" - Term Papers

An Analysis Of "To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph"

In the poem "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph", Anne
Sexton alludes to the flight of Icarus and Daedalus and to "To a Friend
Whose Work Has Come to Nothing" to convey a message to a friend. I think
this poem was written to reassure a friend that what she did was the right
thing. Perhaps a father figure of the friend advised her to do something
and she defied him, making herself feel worried that she did the wrong
thing.

William Butler Yeats once wrote a poem titled "To a Friend Whose
Work has Come to Nothing". It was a poem believed to be written to
reassure a friend that what she ended up doing was a noble thing even
though in reality she failed her original task. The ...

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final line of the poem has a comparably different tone than the
first 13 lines. The last line, "See him acclaiming the sun and come
plunging down while his sensible daddy goes straight into town.", seems
more mocking of Daedalus' flight. It seems that Sexton feels that
Daedalus' flight was a wasted chance and was in no way adventurous. She
might also be comparing her friend to Icarus, seeing as he too failed his
initial task but accomplished something greater on a global scale. I
believe Sexton thought that Icarus' flight was not foolish or a failure,
but adventurous and a great personal success, even though his satisfaction
and personal glory was short-lived. She wrote "Admire his wings",
"wondrously tunneling", and "Who cares that he fell back to the sea",
therefore I think that she doesn't believe that the fact Icarus plunged to
the sea is important.

Many have used the process of allusion in the past to help convey a
meaning of a poem. A popular example and choice ...

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Added: 5/17/2008 06:11:54 AM
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Premium Paper
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