Edna St. Vincent Millay's Love Is Not All

As Wendy Martin says “the poem leaves the reader with painful impression of a woman in her mid-fifties, who having lost her domestic comforts is left to struggle with despair. Although her loss is mitigated by the promise of the greater rewards of heaven, the experience is deeply tragic.” (75)

In conclusion, the poem points the inevitable cycle of natural and emotional events and the power that love has to go beyond that cycle. This is why the speaker assures that the way he has loved is something that

These are all things that we must have in order to survive, but even though love can give us none of these things, Millay then goes on to say that many men are dying because of a lack of love: “Yet many a man is making friends with death / Even as I speak, for lack of love alone” (8-9). It important to note that the buildup of what love cannot do is necessary for the dramatic declaration that we need love regardless of how useless it may seem. This is a cleaver ploy by Millay because although she has effectively shown how worthless love is on a physical level, she has also effectively shown how necessary love is on an emotional level.

This contrasts sharply to the attitudes portrayed in ‘A kind of love some say’. The last stanza of the poem shows the persona talking about emotional pain, ‘Sadists will not learn that Love, by nature, exacts a pain, Unequalled on the rack. This shows us that the emotional pain of love can be worse than the actual physical pain described in the poem. This shows the

The author persuades people to use their head before just using the words heart or love to give the word its true meaning. Carruth also displays what happens to words when they tend to be misused which is that they usually lose their value over time if they are not of great importance. Through his writing style in the poem, Carruth shows how people freely use the word “heart” and how it affects the meaning of the word. He opens and closes the poem with a question, refers to the heart as 'it' in the first stanza, and shows uncertainty of the importance of the heart in the first stanza as well.

The work of prominent feminist writer Edna St. Vincent Millay continues to hold value in the educational space, illustrating a sense of humanity and fragility through her verse. In nineteen twenty-three, she published her Italian sonnet “I will put Chaos into fourteen lines,” a powerful work that showcased her ability to command language. Millay’s sonnet chronicles her experience of pitting Chaos into that confining structure of an Italian sonnet, making the figurative cacophony mingle with Order. The sonnet emphasizes the importance of creativity through the form of chaos interacting with the limiting structure and confines of rules and limitations represented by order. I can prove this assertion through Millay’s use of personification, Italian sonnet stanza structure, and meter iambic pentameter.

Love is not always an easy adventure to take part in. As a result, thousands of poems and sonnets have been written about love bonds that are either praised and happily blessed or love bonds that undergo struggle and pain to cling on to their forbidden love. Gwendolyn Brooks sonnet "A Lovely Love," explores the emotions and thoughts between two lovers who are striving for their natural human right to love while delicately revealing society 's crime in vilifying a couples right to love. Gwendolyn Brooks uses several examples of imagery and metaphors to convey a dark and hopeless mood that emphasizes the hardships that the two lovers must endure to prevail their love that society has condemned.

The acceptance of love has the power of transforming an individual to demand of that same love. The social context of the 1850’s was seen to be emphasised on individual’s emotions and rebellion against established social rules and convections which was evident in her open declarations of love and demanding’s of love which was a concept of idealised love. The notion of idealised love transforming an individual is presented in the ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’. Sonnet 14 as Elizabeth Browning urges her lover to not love her for any particular reason other than “love’s sake only”. In the Octave, the first line is EBB talking directly to whom she loves and she uses high modality in the word ‘must’, making it seem like she

mind. It suggest the poet see it as love or nothing and that he was

The structure of this poem is rather notable. It mimics the structure of a Clare sonnet, fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, AABBCCDDEEFFGG rhyme scheme. Both Italian and Shakespearean sonnets tended to be love poems. However, the Clare sonnet doesn’t quite fit properly with either, it’s a touch more simplistic in nature, which lends this poem something akin to irony. This poem isn’t simply a love poem, it’s poem about the frustration of love along with being a cautionary tale. It has a more

The theme of this poem is the declaration of love. The theme emphasizes on how strong love can truly be. It gives a message on how love is something special and how it can be

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.

Love is one of the most desired feelings, because of this people often risk their happiness and freedom in order to have what they believe love feels like. This is what Cornelius Eady dives into in his poem, “I’m A Fool To Love You.” He presents a story of his mother’s pursuit to feel loved by men who do not truly love her. It dives into how her pursuit of love has led to her feelings of regret and heartache. Cornelius Eady uses metaphors, repetition, and vivid imagery to teach, what people want to believe is love is not, nor is it worth giving up a part of themselves and their life.

Traveling is something that one may long for, even if they are happy with where they are. Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Travel," an extended metaphor, presents a person who appreciates all that they have, but longs for something more. Millay develops the theme of the poem using literary devices, such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, personification, imagery and onomatopoeia. Through these devices, Millay wants to express that even if one is comfortable with the way things are, they should take other chances.

Poet, feminist, or playwrite are three words people often think of in correlation with Edna St. Vincent Millay. Many people know that Vincent Millay is one of America’s greatest poets, but there was a lot of events that Millay went through to earn her that title. Edna St. Vincent Millay changed the world by contributing her poetry, plays, and her feminist views. Vincent Millay showed people that their opinions have value and that small people cand make a big difference in many different ways. Vincent Millay is remembered as America’s Greatest Poet and the Embodiment of the New Women.