Group C: "Venus and the Ark"

I have to agree with both Samantha and Denton on their interpretations of the poem.  Anne Sexton seemed to create an easy to read poem about people from Earth colonizing a new planet, Venus.  But to go along with Denton’s allusion to the religious aspect of the poem, I thought it was pretty interesting that the author would use such contradicting ideals.  One part of the poem that caught my eye was at the very end when Sexton talks about the two new fish creatures and the fruit dropping from the tree.  I don’t know if I’m the only one that interpreted it like this, but it seemed like this instance was alluding to Adam and Eve and the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil from the Bible.  This brings up yet another contradiction between religion and evolution that is seen in Sexton’s poem. 

            Another part of the poem that really intrigued me was when the men announced to the Earth “VENUS IS GREEN”.  One would expect that the moment mankind is successful in living on another planet and having life reproduce, the whole world would seem to stop on its axis.  The entire would, you would think, would seem to revolve around this momentous event.  However, from Sexton’s poem, the loud earth tellers (which I assume to be news analyst) spent all of fifteen minutes on the event.  Are you kidding!?  That's it!?  And to add more time to the news broadcast they shortened the weather forecast?  What?!  I would spend days, weeks, maybe months talking about this.  It's this belittlement of the colonization that makes me wonder why the world didn’t seem to care.