Venus and the Ark

I think Anne sexton refers to this poem as a spoof because it is an alternate retelling of the original biblical story. She take out the faith factor of the story and converts it to science. It follows the original story of creation fairly accurately with the hand selected animals, a disaster striking, and things taking their own course. It seems to me that it is almost mocking creationism by having the scientists doing something similar. (73)Also since there is an ongoing debate from scientists about the lack of evidence behind creationism it seems fitting that she would have her spoof doing just that.