In What my lips have kissed, and where, and why, Millay utilizes the figurative language metaphor to describe her emotion of heartbreak and loneliness. Miserably, Millay sits down and thinks about her past relationships: “Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,”(Millay 9-10). This quote explains the comparison of herself to a tree in a winter, which has no leaves due to the weather of the winter season. Millay, looking out the window, is expressing how her soul is cold and lonely because she has nobody to love and nobody to love her. Crying, Millay expresses her heartache: “And in my heart it stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again,”(Millay 6-7). This quote explains how Millay,
