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Anne Sexton
1971
Poem
Fairy Tales, Women's Studies
The speaker uses the second-person point of view, directly addressing the reader as "you" throughout the poem.
"Cinderella" begins in the present tense, as the speaker describes things "[y]ou always read about." When the speaker begins to relate the story of Cinderella, the poem shifts to the past tense.
In the poem, the speaker presents several examples of a rags-to-riches "Cinderella story," then retells a version of the fairy tale "Cinderella," revising the ending.
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