Edna St.Vincent Poems

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Alexandria Edwards LIT 295-V1 Oct 14, 2011 Major Paper 2 The set of poems by Edna St.Vincent Millay are from an essay she wrote called Fatal Interview. These poems discuss the journey of a relationship between Millay and her previous love. The poems start out with a description of a brand new relationship. They are completely in love and it’s the type of love you only hear of in the old literature. The second poem goes into describing how their love is still there. However they spend more time remember the past and just being together without the judgmental eyes of others. The third poem takes a turn to where Millay is talking about how love isn’t everything. She mentions how love cannot be used for food or shelter. How it cannot help you breath or heal a broken bone. The last poem from this work talks about their relationship ending. Their relationship has been great and she still remembers the time they spent together. However she knew that this would happen at some point, and even though it is sad to let him go she is ready too. The first poem from Fatal Interview talks about how much Millay is in love with this man. The first and second line of the poem she says “Women have loved before as I love now; At least, in lively chronicles of the past,” (530). She is comparing this relationship and the love she has for him to the old literature which contains the greatest loves. I believe that this is a great comparison. The classic novels talk about a love that is everlasting and true. So for Millay to compare this relationship to classic literature means that in her mind this love is forever. In line eight Millay describes how love is like a fire that consumes everything around it like a burning city (530). I found this really interesting because I have seen many people while they are in a relationship nothing else seems to matter. The relationship consumes

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