Edna St. Vincent Millay

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“The “Carpe Diem” of Time, Love, and Life?” Time is in control of all people's life, because time and death are synonymous with each other. In the two pieces, Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress” and the Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem (sonnet), “I Shall Forget You Presently My Dear”, have similar themes of “carpe diem” and how love needs to be nurture in the here and now. Love can fall into this trap of being lifeless and unsatisfying, which can cause problems in the relationship…

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love is Not All” employs numerous poetic devices in order to express the simultaneous senselessness and essentiality of love. Structurally, Millay’s sonnet fits perfectly into Shakespeare’s niche: the first 13 lines express the superfluity and foolishness of being in love, while the last line confesses that Millay does “not think [she] would” (Line 14) surrender love for purpose. This single closing statement encompasses the human tendency to love for the experience,…

what she felt and because she couldn’t after he had passed away, she couldn’t cope with the loss. Another two poems that show the coping of loss in a similar way are “My last Duchess” by Robert Browning and “And you as well must die” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Both poems talk about the death of someone or something is inevitable. “My last Duchess” does this by having the Duke justify to himself that the death of the Duchess was inevitable. He had her killed so that he could stay in control.…

The poem “I will put Chaos into fourteen lines” by Edna St. Vincent Millay portrays the speaker as someone who is trying to make order out of chaos in her life by effectively using personification, an assertive tone, and caesura to make her point. The speaker uses capitalization when referring to Chaos as if he is a human being that she knows but seems to be upset with or frustrated at. She wants to put him into “fourteen lines and keep him there” (lines 1,2) as if she believes he is the cause…

Outline THESIS: The dynamics of cheating and social psychology that influences students to lose morality and be inclined to academically cheat are becoming harmfully prevelant in today’s schools. Cheating in schools is affect all, regardless to education level. High schools are naturally prone to academic dishonesty, but the numbers are very high. Even ivy league colleges such as Harvard are not exempt of cheating. Students across the education level gradient don’t always understand the serious…

The title of my poem is, "How Healthily Their Feet Upon the Floor" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. I believe that the significance of this title is about the childhood life. The word "healthily" means to be in good health, and it is referring to the feet on the floor, which I believe are dancing or running; the activities of a child which are forms of exercise. That is seen as good health; however, by only looking at the title a reader would not know that the poet is giving an expiation of childhood…

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s works are complex packages to parcel through. A common theme found in her poetry is her sexual history, but one stands out more keenly than the rest of the selected readings. In her poem “I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently,” Millay subverts the conventional sonnet through her writing structure and her non-romantic narrative. First, we must examine the difference between the traditional sonnet and Millay’s unique flavor of sonnet. The traditional sonnet is a poem…

Separated by three hundred years, Millay and Shakespeare bring to light opposing ideas on love’s effect on the human condition. “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St. Vincent Millay and “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare investigate erotic and platonic love in a similar yet contrasting manner. Millay’s poem explores personal grief when passionate love wanes with age. Shakespeare’s poem, on the other hand, depicts platonic love for a friend who, to the narrator, is the…

in most, if not all, of her work to symbolize her passion for the outside, her overall questions and feelings about life itself. Mary Oliver went to two separate colleges yet never got a degree, she was very infatuated with poet Edna St. Vincent Millay growing up. She then found love and moved to a place called Provincetown, which is where she pulled a lot of nature's beauty from after claiming to fall in love with that place and it's amazing surroundings. She's always had a thing for…