An Analysis Of "To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph"
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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. Perhap ....
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.... 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 father made.
The 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
Daed ....
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