How is Culture & Identity articulated in the Poem Cinderella by Anne Sexton?

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How is Culture & Identity articulated in the Poem Cinderella by Anne Sexton?

I am writing an Example Essay for a Comp II class, im not to great about writting, i jmust need some ideas to get me started any help is greatly appreciated. He asks what poetic techniques make the work poetry?

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I feel the work is poetry due to the way the stanzas are set up, the flow of the text, and her use of language. Sexton creates identity by using familiar imaging, a story that almost everyone knows. Her use of commonly known things such as Dior, (a famous designer), Bonwit Teller (a famed department store), may be to create an image that the reader is familiar with, may want in their own life, or maybe can relate to by direct life experience. By retelling the Cinderella story with a more realistic twist, perhaps Sexton is comparing herself to the Cinderella character, using her father as an example of the masculine, giving her the tools to ultimately change her station in life, providing her with a connection to her mother through the turtledove, and allowing her her revenge in the end. The last stanza is satirical, sarcastic view of life, and how the fairytale really does not exist. In my opinion Anne Sexton was the master of this type of poetic commentary.