The song "Vincent" by Don McLean shows the best connection with van Gogh and his artworks due to its deep and allusional lyrics, which refer not only to art but to the psyche of the man himself. The other two poems do not successfully relate with van Gogh and his artworks. "The Starry Night" by Anne Sexton is an interesting analysis of the most famous van Gogh painting, The Starry Night; furthermore, it effectively uses the painting to describe an internal battle, which is made evident by line 5 and 6, "Oh starry starry night! This is how / I want to die." However, the poem fails to allude to Vincent van Gogh or any of his other works, and is ultimately too short to properly develop the ideas and structure put forth in the first two stanzas.
