Edna St. Cummings

“Women have loved before as I love now/ At least, in lively chronicles of the past-” (lines 1-2). These opening lines seem to simultaneously show love as something old, trite, and exciting. In “[Women have loved before as I love now]”, Edna St. Vincent Millay describes the ancient love stories of the past and how she relates to them. She writes how she used to seek out the parts which focused on love, describing the love of past women as something passionate and strong. Millay also goes on to say that out of all the women alive, she feels that only she connects with the love of the past, and that only she truly feels love. “[Women have loved before as I love now]” shows that passionate love is a joyful burden that is shared by both sexes.

The author believes that he had reasoned rule for life and said that it was a great consolation that he did not willfully wrong anyone nor put to the market an imperfectly made

The scene before this metaphor describes the author 's realization of his forever departure from his childhood world as his presents are no longer from "Santa Claus", unlike his younger brothers. Christmas is a holiday filled with joy and laughter, however for the author, this Christmas meant the mark of his entrance in the adult world. As he said on page 344, paragraph 4, "...so much surprised as touched by a pang

    The prince of Cumberland: that is a step on which I must not fall down, or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires, the eye wink at the hand. Yet let that be, which the eye fears when it is done to see (Shakespeare 21).

To begin the poem Duffy uses a shocking short sentence, which contains contrasting word choice to convey an ironic tone from Havisham. The contradictory oxymoron also startles the reader and grasps our attention as we do not expect this beginning.

Though there are several themes in this novel, the central theme that connects them all is identity and finding who you are and where you belong in life and society. At the beginning of the novel, we see Edna is portrayed as typical mother and wife; "Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she had given to her husband before leaving for the beach. She silently reached out to him, and he, understanding, took the rings from his vest pocket and dropped them into her open palm. She slipped them upon her fingers" (1). Once Edna decides to live life the way she wants that is thrown out the window. The reason for this is due to Edna’s second side. She is said to have two sides "Even as a child, she had lived her own small life all within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions" (7). The "sides" refer to as her inner and outer self. Edna’s outer self is the person who everyone around tells/wants her to be; Her inner self is the Edna that longs to be free, she wants to do what she feels like without people judging her. This is why the theme is identity from start to finish Edna is struggling between who others want her to be vs. what she wants to be.

The affliction of vanity appears regularly throughout both pieces of work by Franklin and Woolman. The two men seem to be hampered by this vice of pride and wishing to possess humility. Benjamin Franklin addresses this burden of appearing vain as an issue and aims to improve himself with his constituted principles. He lists “Humility” as his last virtue he aspires to develop so as to “Imitate Jesus and Socrates” (Franklin, 79). How ironic of Franklin to want to be humble, yet strive for moral perfection! Franklin so much as prides himself on this list of virtues that heavily influences his life. However, he accordingly considers pride to be one of the most difficult to overcome considering one can “disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself...” (Franklin,

"...if Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property- that's law! And there is none but Putnam with the coin to buy so great a piece."

After rejecting to go to bed all evening, Edna is lastly overwhelmed with fatigue. Although Edna won the stand-off with her spouse over Edna joining her husband in bed immediately and got Robert to go to the island with her, she is experiencing the consequences of her impulsive and erratic behavior. While at church, Edna starts to feel faint and gets a cephalgia, so she suddenly leaves the mass with Robert following hastily after her. Robert transports her to Madame Antoine's household, where it is colder, silent, and passive. Madame Antoine is very welcoming and consents Edna to slumber in her vast, hygienic bed. Edna slowly disrobes and she observes the magnificence of her arms for the first time, and her senses are stimulated by the freshness of the sites and people around her, soon falling into slumber.

Dickens' Use of Language and Structure to Build Up a Picture of the Joy of Christmas Present

According to the author, “children who live in a pioneer country remember incidents in their early life better than children living in older settled countries” and that is because, “”their impressions stand out clearly and in prominence for the rest of their lives.” When this story happened, Edna M. Boyle Allen was six years old. Edna, being six, verifies her earlier statement because she remembers this story extremely vividly.

1. What is Edna trying to achieve throughout the novel? Does she fulfill her mission? Edna throughout history only tried to be happy with the person that had fallen in love with the ual was Robert at the beginning they met everything was pure happiness with him since I started everything on Grand Island ay is where his story begins Of love for a hardworking and sincere man but Edna can not be with him because in the first she is married and the second because Robert prefers to go to Mexico because he wanted to leave her because he knew what would happen if he went on and on with her, Robert never wanted to destroy The family of Edna. Chapter 15 When Edna returns to the city she can not stand the temptation to know of her beloved robert

Dorothy E. Smith was born in North England in 1926. Dorothy E. Smith has lived a long life and commonly refers to it as “a long time ago and another world”. According to Smith, she has grown from the young woman to now due to several experiences. Smith has been employed in many different capacities such as a secretary and a clerk. In her Mid-twenties, she worked at a book publishing company. Smith attempted to make a career in the publishing field, but soon realized women were not welcomed or respected.

Her career that spanned three decades and her work that ranges from lyrics to verse play and political commentary. Edna St. Vincent Millay is mostly known for her earlier works, such as "Renascence", Few Figs Thistles, and Second April. Millay wrote about things such as mystical views on the universe, god, death, celebration of feminism, and free love. It's almost as if she was a writer from today and with that, I believe that she would be comfortable with today's free America.

Cummings speaks to the destructive nature of humans- their inherent need to find reason and “justify” everything, instead of embracing the unknown and simply existing in it.