To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph Essay

Title	To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph Essay
# of Words	435
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.74

     To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph essay

     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 title of Sexton’s poem is an obvious allusion to Yeats’ poem.  Sexton changed "Nothing" to "Triumph" in her title.  Sexton’s friend must have been a fellow poet to be able to catch the allusion to Yeats’ poem.  I believe she wanted her friend to know that what she did was the right thing.  Perhaps she compared her friend to Yeats’ friend.  Sexton wrote "Think of the difference it made!" referring to Icarus’ flight.  She might have wanted her friend to realize a difference her defying her fa...

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