millay

654 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Poetry

“So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been” (St. Vincent Millay ) this is a quote from the poem ‘Dirge Without Music’. According to my perspective of this poem, its related to the death of loved ones. In more words it means that loved ones die, loved ones will die; loved ones have died and this will never change. This sad but truthful poem was written by Edna St. Vincent Millay. This woman was a person whom received love and compensation for her work. She had a lifelong supporter also known as her mother. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s career and life were affected by several different objects such as her mother, her surroundings, and her love life.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was born in Rockland, Maine. Her parents, Cora Lounella, a nurse, and Henry Tolman Millay, a schoolteacher. (Blain, Grund, and Clements ) Known to her family as "Vincent," she was named after St. Vincent Hospital in New York City, where her uncle had received care. At the age of 8, her parents divorced, and her mother raised Millay and her younger sisters.("Edna St. Vincent Millay" ) After Millay’s mother and father got a divorce her mother raised her and her 2 other sisters on her own in the year 1899.(Academy of American Poets 1) Millay’s mother motivated her daughters to appreciate music and literature from an young age so that they would be ambitious and self-sufficient.(Academy of American Poets 1) Millay’s mother implored that Millay enter her poem "Renascence" into a contest as the outcome to her mother's advice she won fourth place and publication in The Lyric Year.(Academy of American Poets 1) This being the case she not long after received notice and a scholarship to Vassar. (Academy of American Poets 1) As can be seen her mother...

... middle of paper ...

....htm>.

"Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950 ." Alix North All Rights Reserved. n. page. Print.

Edna St. Vincent Millay." 2014. The Biography Channel website. Apr 02 2014, 11:10 http://www.biography.com/people/edna-st-vincent-millay-9408293.

EdnaSt. Vincent Millay Society, . "Her life at Steepletop." n. page. Print.

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 7: Edna St. Vincent Millay." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/millay.html (April 4, 2014)

St. Vincent Millay, Edna . "Dirge Without Music ." (2003): n. page. Print. .

Vassar Historian, . "Edna St. Vincent Millay." n. page. Print.

Show More
Related

  • Edna Pontellier’s Fall from Grace in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

    1991 Words  | 4 Pages

    We are told there are days when she "was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with sunlight.." On such days Edna "found it good to be alone and unmolested." Yet on other days, she is molested by despondencies so severe that "...

    Read More

  • Jane Elton's Identity Conflict in Catherine Maria Sedgwick’s A New England Tale

    2005 Words  | 5 Pages

    Harris, Susan K.. "'But is it any good?': Evaluating Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction." American Literature 63 (March 1991): 42-61.

    Read More

  • What Is Edna Pontellier's Sacrifice In The Awakening

    905 Words  | 2 Pages

    When her husband and children are gone, she moves out of the house and purses her own ambitions. She starts painting and feeling happier. “There were days when she was very happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day” (Chopin 69). Her sacrifice greatly contributed to her disobedient actions. Since she wanted to be free from a societal rule of a mother-woman that she never wanted to be in, she emphasizes her need for expression of her own passions. Her needs reflect the meaning of the work and other women too. The character of Edna conveys that women are also people who have dreams and desires they want to accomplish and not be pinned down by a stereotype.

    Read More

  • An Analysis of Millay's Poem, Renascence

    784 Words  | 2 Pages

    At first glance Edna St. Vincent Millay's first recognized poem, Renascence, seems to be easy to understand and follow. However, as this sing-songy poem is dissected, the reader embarks upon a world full of emotion, religion, confusion, pain and sin. This poem is split up into six sections or stanzas which separate the action of the poem into easy to understand parts. I have chosen to discuss the first section of the poem for my close reading.

    Read More

  • Comparison of Daisy Miller and The Yellow Wallpaper

    1214 Words  | 3 Pages

    Perkins, Geroge, and Barbara Perkins. The American Tradition in Literature. 12th ed. Vol. 2. New York: McGraw Hill, 2009. Print

    Read More

  • What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by Edna St. Vincent Millay

    743 Words  | 2 Pages

    Edna St. Vincent Millay grew up in a small town in Maine. She was always encouraged by her mother to pursue her writing and musical talents. She finished college and moved to New York City where she lived a fast pace life pursuing acting and play writing. Her liveliness, independence, and sexuality inspired her writing styles and gave her poetry a freshness that no others had. She is famous for writing sonnets like “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why.” This poem holds many metaphors and symbols pertaining to how certain seasons make people feel. She compares the feeling of nature with her personal feelings of being alone after having so many lovers.

    Read More

  • Essay on Appearance vs Reality in Everyday Use and The Gilded Six-Bits

    1203 Words  | 3 Pages

    Baym, Nina, ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature.  Shorter fifth edition. New York: Norton, 1999.

    Read More

  • Symbolism in A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

    1046 Words  | 3 Pages

    McMichael, G., et. al., (1993) Concise Anthology of American Literature- 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

    Read More

  • Jacobs & Douglass: An Insight Into The Experience of The American Slave

    1006 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...n American Literature. By Henry Louis. Gates and Nellie Y. McKay. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2004. 387-452. Print.

    Read More

  • Writers During The Age of Discovery and The Romantic Period

    1169 Words  | 3 Pages

    Perkins George, Barbara. The American Tradition in Literature, 12th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2009. Print

    Read More

  • Similar Themes in Love is Not All by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Since feeling is First by E. E. Cummings

    702 Words  | 2 Pages

    Millay, Edna St. Vincent. “Love is not all” Literature; Reading, Reacting, Writing. ED. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. 7th ed. Boston: Wadsworth, 2012. 257-68. Print.

    Read More

  • Maud Martha, by Gwendolyn Brooks

    2920 Words  | 6 Pages

    Washington, Mary Helen. "The Darkened Eye Restored: Notes Toward a Literary History of Black Women". Angelyn Mitchell, ed. Within the Circle: An Anthology of African-American Literature, Criticism From the Present. Durham: Duke, 1994. 442-53.

    Read More

  • Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

    1355 Words  | 3 Pages

    Baym, Nina et al. Ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter 8th ed. New York:

    Read More

  • A Psychoanalytic Reading of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    1586 Words  | 4 Pages

    Baym, Nina, et al., ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 4th ed. New York: Norton, 1994.

    Read More

  • Attitudes Towards Death In Millay's Poems

    188 Words  | 1 Pages

    Millay's scornful attitude towards death is revealed in the first line of "dirge without music."Although she doesn't regard for the "loving heart[s] in the hard ground"(1) Millay understands that death is a part of life and "the wise and lovely" all go into the "darkness"(3).With her strong choice of diction,Millay is able to create a comforting tone that reveals death in a soothing manner.But, she contrasts her tone with the repetition of "I am not resigned"(4).The repetition of "I am not resigned" signifies that Millay does not acknowledges the death of someone in her life.Millay maintains her stubborn tone until she finally accepts that her beloved has become one with "the indiscrimate dust"(6).The lose of the best qualities has had melancholy

    Read More

More about millay

Open Document