Looking for a thesis statement for a poet of Country Scene?

Answer 1

Let's illustrate with one Ann Sexton poem set in the country
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When man
enters woman
like the surf biting the shore
again and again,
and the woman opens her mouth in pleasure
and her teeth gleam
like the alphabet
Logos appears milking a star,
and the man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never again be separate
and the woman
climbs into flower
and swallows its stem
and Logos appears
and unleashes their rivers.

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Thesis statement:
Eros and Thanatos [Greek words that Freud uses for sex and death] are classic antagonists. The sex act is the supreme affirmation of life—poetically, psychologically and physically—while death is life’s negation. If life is a prolonged response to sensory stimuli, then we are most alive during the synchrony of physical and emotional pleasure that sex represents. Sex makes use of all the human senses; what’s more, it enables procreation, the species’ most vital function. In contradiction, death destroys all that sex creates. Where sex is hot, death is cold. Where sex is moist, death is dank. Nothing upsets one's amorous thoughts more assuredly than images of morbid decay. Sex and death appear as true adversaries. In spite of the usual attitude captured above, Ann Sexton subtly juxtaposes the two forces as allies from the very first seven lines. Death (implied) and sex seem to work in tandem in the poem.

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