EdnaSt. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work.
ByEdna St. Vincent Millay. We were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable— But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table, We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.
Structureand Form. ‘ Renascence’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a 214 line poem that is divided into twenty stanzas of varying lengths. The majority of these are around twelve lines in length. Millay chose to make use of a simple rhyme scheme of couplets throughout ‘Renascence.’. This means that the poem follows a rhyme scheme of AABBCC
EdnaSt. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Maine. In 1912, she was famously discovered at a party at the Whitehall Inn in Camden, where her sister worked as a waitress. Legend has it that the 20-year-old “Vincent,” as she called herself, recited her poem “Renascence” to a rapt audience that night, and the rest of her bohemian life was Fuelwas scarce, And food was dear. A wind with a wolf's head. Howled about our door, And we burned up the chairs. And sat upon the floor. All that was left us. Was a chair we couldn't break, And the harp with a woman's head.EdnaSt. Vincent Millay Papers Advance proofs for Book-of-the-Month Club edition. Cook, Harold Lewis. Edna St. Vincen t Millay; an Essay and Bibliography. New York and London: Harper, 1935. Salesman's dummy. Van Stockum, Hilda. A Day on Skates; the Story of a Dutch Picnic, Foreword by Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York and London: Harper, cAVtbN6. 132470222119418102428367475
