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 * =__ //Edna St. Vincent Millay// __ =

**Edna St. Vincent Millay** was born in Rockland, Maine on February 22, 1892. Writing peoms for the //St. Nicholas// Magazine enabled her to attend Vassar College in 1912. Edna is also known as Nancy Boyd, her pen name. // Renascence and Other// //Poems// was her first book, which was published in 1917, the year she graduated from Vassar. Her spouse, whom she married in 1923, was named Eugen Jan Boissevain.

 Edna's original goal was to become an actress, but her career on stage was brief. After spending time with the Provincetown Players, she wrote a one-act play. Then, she began writing short stories and poems for magazines. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her // Ballad of the Harp-Weaver,// which was published in 1922. She, also, wrote a famous American opera called //The King's Henchman.//  ||

Poetry links
[|Autumn Daybreak] [|City Trees] [|Conscientious Objector] ||= ||
 * [|Afternoon on a Hill]
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Explication of //  The Ashes of Life   //   by Edna St. Vincent Millay
 [|The Ashes of Life] is a poem that emphasizes the inevitable depression that comes with the end of a relationship. The author’s use of repetition establishes the fact the speaker of the poem is a depressed woman whose boyfriend recently dumped her. The words “Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike,” from line one, helped us to fathom that the speaker is going through a hard time.   <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">  <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> //  <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Ashes of Lif     <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">e   //   <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> is intended for anyone who has had their heart broken at one time or another. The words “gnawing of a mouse,” from line ten, symbolize that life will go on forever, no matter how much the speaker is suffering. She feels as if there is no point in living anymore, and she just wants to watch the clock slowly tick until her death, hints the words “the slow hours strike!” from line three. Edna wrote // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Ashes of Life  //  <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> in free verse simply to let out her feelings. Each stanza has four lines, but there is no specific rhyme scheme or line length. <span style="color: rgb(241, 39, 39);">

<span style="color: rgb(241, 39, 39);">Sources
==           <span style="color: rgb(255, 15, 0);">"  **Millay** , **Edna** **St.** **Vincent**." __Encyclopædia Britannica__. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 18 Nov. 2008 <[|http://school.eb.com/eb/][|article][|-9052699]>. ==