![]() ![]() You can no longer quiet me with the rednessĪn empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. To what purpose, April, do you return again? ![]() A Few Figs From Thistles(1921 full text).Renascence and Other Poems (1917, full text).Whether in free verse, the lyric rhyme, or in the very formal rules of the sonnet, she challenges herself and her readers to experience spring’s beauty as solely impermanent therefore, beware of taking too much pleasure in its transitory pleasures. Millay consistently used nature in her poetry to express her emotional renderings. This bouquet of spring poetry that I culled from Millay’s poems seems to have a common thread: She is annoyed at spring’s exuberant beauty coming yearly, and becomes indifferent and slightly angry since nature’s exuberant beauty arrives when her heart is under torment once more and is experienced as something of an intrusion upon her grieving.Īnd yet, Millay loves spring, and, in a slightly dramatic fashion in her poem Assault, she becomes overwhelmed at the breaking of winter’s silence by the sound of the frogs she is “waylaid by beauty,” and can scarce continue her walk amongst such natural delights. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950) and her observations on the spring season. The poet that I instinctively read, and read again, was Edna St. This year, as spring approached I took on the perspective of Emily Dickinsonand slowly, tentatively, began to believe that hope - “the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul” - is real and possible. ![]()
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