Many people can look at the same painting and all will come away with their own understanding. Each person has their biases and preconceived ideas that will influence their personal experience. In this article we will discuss how Anne Sexton described in a short poem her experience looking at Vincent Van Gogh's painting Starry Night. We will observe how Anne Sexton's poem based on Van Gogh's painting speaks of death in darkness as the painting seems to emphasize light in darkness. Anne Sexton’s “Starry Night” describes her experience visiting Van Gogh’s painting during a gallery exhibition. The poem “The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton is written in reference to the painting The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh sent to her brother. She writes this poem with a heavy tone and understands that Van Gogh's work is a destructive painting, full of darkness and yearning for the coming death. Sexton views the town at the foothills as dilapidated and silent as it slowly disappears beneath the starry night. Most importantly, Sexton sees the tree that looks like a dead woman's hair drifting in the blue sky and looks like a sly, deceptive snake. Much like the understanding of seasickness in ancient Near Eastern times, she saw the swirling sky in the same way. Through this, she then sees the night as a beast that brings chaos and destruction, removing everything that is beautiful. For she says that even the eleven departures, so beautiful with the moon will be swallowed up by the beast of the night. She writes as if all this was once beautiful and a source of life on this earth, but is now destroyed and a source of desire for the destruction of life. On the other hand, in the painting The Starry Night...... middle of paper ......representation of the painting, some aspects were surprising in how dark and heavy she could speak, she took an interesting perspective. However, in her interpretive poem, she found a perspective of the painting that concerned her. As she used each stroke of darkness painted on the canvas to symbolize this darkness and evil that resides in the world. He told his story and his experience of a starry night. Similarly, Van Gogh had used each streak of light painted on the canvas as a symbol of beauty and a symbol of his fascination with the night sky and its illuminating lights. He uses rapid movements of his brush to depict a sky that seems capable of transporting the mind from the frustrations of this world into the dreamlike night light. A single painting worth a million words tells many stories from every angle.