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  • on Lament by Edna St. Vincent Millay, on December 22, 2006
    The poem is almost contradicting...the author purposely states that she will give her children the possesions of their dead father and then to go on living without him. Walking in a dead man's clothes would probably continue grievance for awhile. Then after attempting to sound sincere about living on without the dead the author states that she doesn't know why we as humans should go on living.

  • on If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way by Edna St. Vincent Millay, on December 21, 2006
    This poem reminds me of "The Story of an Hour," written by Kate Chopin in which a wife is so overcome with joy because her freedom from her husband (Mr.Millard) after his death she dies of a heart attack...from joy instead of grief. However this poem does indeed seem more about indifference. Both portray a kind of an usually almost contradicting character "the happy widow," or
    "the indifferent widow,".

  • on The Lover’s Song by Eliza Acton, on September 8, 2006
    I enjoyed the romanticisim of the poem...however the constant repetition is silently only worked for me of line 18 and otherwise I found it unneccessary...destroying the rhyme and flow of this poem.