Jasmine &+Lexie

= **Edna St. Vincent Millay ** =



 **__HER POEMS:__**

Travel:

code The railroad track is miles away, And the day is loud with voices speaking, Yet there isn't a train goes by all day But I hear its whistle shrieking.

All night there isn't a train goes by, Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming, But I see its cinders red on the sky, And hear its engine steaming.

My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing; Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. code

 Afternoon on a Hill:

code I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine, And then start down! code

**__ STYLES AND INFLUENCE __**

 From the early age of 8, Edna St. Vincent Millay has had great exposure to writing and reading materials after her mover underwent a difficult divorce. Millay was constantly pushed to do her best and lectures of encouragement were heart often. It was after Millay gave up trying to pursue a career as a professional pianist, (she was told her hands were "too small,") and began writing poetry. In an interview, Millay said she enjoyed authors and poets such as Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wodsworth, Charles Dickens, and Robert Frost. Frost, another popular poet around that time, had very similar writing styles to Millay, and the two were compared often. The styles of the two poets were sonnets- often with rhyming stanzas. Millay occasionally published odes as well, such as her "Ode to Silence" and "The Beanstalk." The popular themes in Millay's poems range from very positive- marital relationships, classic love, and the beauty of nature, to very negative- sorrow, grieving, disappointment, and heartbreak. Though these subjects seem very basic at first, Millay was able to stand out with her poems because she incorporated modern language and ideals into the old fashioned nature of her poems and branch in to the unique, brilliant poet she is remembered as today.

**__ BIOGRAPHY __**

 Edna St. Vincent Millay was born February 27th, 1892 in Rockland, Maine. She died in October 19th,1950 in Austerlitz, New York. Millay had some tough times as a child due to her parents divorcing and her mother sending her father away, all when she eight. She was the oldest out of three kids. When got older she got a mentor who Millay get into Vassar College, which she graduated in 1917. In 1923 she married Eugene Jan Boiseevain and he died in 1949. Her poetry was mainly about love. Some of her most famous poems are: Buck in The Snow (1928), Fatal Interview (1931), and Wine From These Grapes (1934). In 1944 Millay had a nervous breakdown which put her in the hospital for several months, following her death.

**__ OUR POEMS __**

__Heartbreak__ by Lexie Lehmann

Heartbreak strikes like my deadly pill, I might be able to tell when its coming, But never when it will kill, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">and my Heart's guitar stops strumming.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Someday, somewhere, I may try to move on, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">But somehow I'll never forget- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The leaves turns to green, the day turns to dawn- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I can try to contain it, but I'll always regret.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The things that I've done, haunt the room like a cow, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">And the people I've met, helped my soul spread it's wings- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">But it never compared to what I feel now, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I never expected, never thought about anything.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I love to the moon, the stars, and the rain, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Though its over now and years have passed, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">There's nothing like my first hearbreak pains- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">No matter what shadows soon will be cast.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">__Down__ by Jasmine Hills

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">__ **BIBLIOGRAPHY** __

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