In a paper consisting of five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of its mechanics and meaning and how each of these categories is independent of of the other.
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- "whatever I say is art, is art." The same argument could b made for a poet. If the poet claims it, a poem. Is it then
a poem or does it have to follow certain structure, form or meaning to get that title? In this discussion we will examine the poem, Cinderella by Anne Sexton,
within two categories, meaning and mechanics of, and see how it stands on its own. Meaning Choosing the title of " Cinderella" reacquaints us with the different levels of meaning
of this story at the different times in our lives, when it may have been read to us, or we read and internalized it for ourselves. The young child
hears the story and believes that if I do what I am supposed to, or what I am told, somehow good will come of it. The older child may hear
the story, and remembers themselves as younger, and when the believed the perceived simplicity of the story. Now they recognize, that it can take a lot of cinders and
a lot of tasks in order to make it to the ball. I remember one friend who commented on this very tale, and claimed with my luck. The Prince
will come and the Prince will go. I will be the one left cleaning up after the horse. A long distance of meanings trotted out by just one
small story. Myth Cinderella is one of the basic myths of childhood. Not that a myth is a bad thing. Native people called such stories "teaching tales," we
westerners with our sense of not needing stories any longer, have termed them "fairy tales," - something not of the real world. Sexton chooses to make her Cinderella of