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Edna St Vincent Millay
1,159 wordsEdna St. Vincent Millay, a poet and play write, was best known for her lyrical poetry. She wrote many poems, on topics such as love, fidelity, erotic desire, and feminist issues. The part of Millay that wasn't highly publicized is that she addressed herself as a bisexual and had many affairs with woman before her marriage. It is not said if she continued sexual with women after her marriage (though it is quite possible), nor it is not said which of her poems are written about women rather than m...
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Millay's Poem
664 wordsChildhood Is The Kingdom... In Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies", she wrote of the outcome of a death of a loved one is to child. In Millay's poem she writes of a person who has lost their mother. Edna explains through the poem that to a child death is almost non-existent to them, "Nobody that matters, that is". When you are young, death does not seem to have an impact unless it happens to someone that is in your immediate family. To a child the world is...
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Edna St Vincent Millay
967 wordsEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was born in Rockland, Maine. Her parents, Cora Louella, a nurse, and Henry Tolman Millay, a schoolteacher, divorced when she was about eight; "Vincent" stayed with her mother. In 1917 she graduated from Vassar, published Renascence and Other Poems (the title piece had won her recognition in 1912), and took the lead in her own play The Princess Marries the Page (published in 1932). She played in it again and directed it for the Provincetown Players in Greenwich...
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Bohemian Speaker The Women Of Macdougal Street
5,181 wordsIn the 1920's, Edna St. Vincent Millay was America's most read, most beloved poet. Critical biographer Elizabeth Atkins gives some indication of Millay's nationally "intoxicating effect on people" in describing the reception of her second collection, A Few Figs from Thistles: To say it became popular conveys but a faint idea of the truth. Edna St. Vincent Millay became, in effect, the unrivaled embodiment of sex appeal, the It-girl of the hour, the Miss America of 1920. It seemed there was hardl...
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Millay's Poems
787 wordsEdna St. Vincent Millay defied the times in which a woman was to operate, in her life style, and in her poems, "Renascence", "My candle burns at both ends", and "I forgot in Camelot, the man I loved in Rome". She was one of the best known poets of the 1900's. Her poems were said to be delicate but outspoken (World book 1968). While in school in addition to being an exceptional student her teachers also considered her to be a particularly bad student, because teachers would give lectures and she ...
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