Edna Ferber

One of the most important passages in the novel is when Edna argued with Madame Ratignolle and Edna stated, “I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me" (64). After reading this for the first time the reader may see Edna as selfish due to the fact that she is not willing to give herself up for her children

"What lips my lips have kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay While reading "What lips my lips have kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, I realized many things about myself. The first thing was that I, after thinking I would never be able to decipher one word of poetry, actually could. I also found that I was able to enjoy it. Another thing was that the narrator (whom I felt was a woman- no man could portray these feelings like a woman) and I had strikingly similar feelings. There happened to be many

Dispassionate Passion: A Close Reading of Millay’s “I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed” Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed” traces the physical and psychological venture of a woman as she indulges in the passion of a one-night stand. Throughout the sonnet, literary elements function to facilitate the emergence of a paradox surrounding the speaker’s existence as both an active subject and a passive object in the encounter described. In analyzing the woman’s experience

In the poems “Still Will I Harvest Beauty Where It Grows” by Edna St. Millay and “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Hopkins, the accentuation of two uniquely similar views of pollution and industrialization is evident. Hopkins discusses a world of pollution saved by nature and God, while Millay highlights one of imperfect perfection through finding beauty in places affected by negative human impact, such as industrialization and pollution. Both poems acknowledge the negativities that come with human pollution

instead of tells. They come in all sorts of styles from a Haiku to Free Verse. Some of them are very clear as to what they are about while others can be convoluted and they have to think about for a while. The message in the poem could be about anything. Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote about a variety of topics mostly about the pain of loss from either death, break up, etc. Everyone at some point learns what it is like to lose a loved one and after reading these it could help to them to cope. To lose someone

Braedon Petch ENGL 1F95 25 November 2014 Word count: 289 Fugacious Relationships and Everlasting Memories in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet IV” Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet IV” follows many of the conventions of the traditional Petrarchan sonnet. It follows the traditional rhyming scheme and octet, sestet structure. However it challenges the conventions of the typical subject of the Italian sonnet, unrequited love. In the octet at the beginning of the poem Millay uses images that give a

Expectations “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

The mentioned writers from 2013 to 2016 received A’s on their papers. Comparison and contrast will be made from the provided essays and Similarity and Differences in Shakespeare and Millay Sonnets to provide visualization in areas needed for improvement to receive an A paper like: Carlos Salgado, Brenda Gutierrez, Pavlo Hutsulyuk, and Gonzalo Rosales. After reading the Carlos Salgado (2013) essay about the two sonnets the areas of needed improvement is visible. Carlos’s essay is well organized,

Analysis of Millay’s “Not in a silver casket cool with pearls” Edna St. Vincent Millay’s unconventional childhood, growing up without a father because her mom kicked him out and having to learn independence and responsibility by the age of twelve, influenced her poetry and shaped her as an motivated and self-sufficient individual. By the time “Vincent”, as she liked to be called, was nineteen years old, she already had already made a name for herself as a formidable poet. A couple discovered

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet IV” is a sonnet spoken from the point of view of a woman who is permitting herself to remember an old lover over the duration of her cigarette. The poem is set up through the classical structure of a Petrarchan sonnet and shares the topic of a lost lover. The octave follows the course of the dream, which takes the form of smoke and shadows. The volta marks the end of the cigarette and the dream, but the speaker still continues her memories in the sestet to follow