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By: Diego Carballo

Date: December 4, 2009

















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• Title page page 1
• Table of Contents page 2
• Edna St. Vincent Millay Title page 3
• Poet’s Biographical Sketchpage 4
• Sorrow Title page 5
• Sorrow Poem page 6
• Sorrow TP CASTT page 7
• Sorrow Reader’s Response page 8
• Ashes of Life Title page 9
• Ashes of Life Poem page 10
• Ashes of Life TP CASTTpage 11
• Ashes of Life Reader’s Response page12
• God’s World Title page 13
• God’s World Poem page 14
• God’s World TP CASTT page 15
• God’s World Reader’s Response page 16
• Bibliography (MLA format) page 17












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[pic]Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on February 22, 1892 on Rockland, Maine and died October 19, 1950. She was the daughter of Henry Tollman Millay who was a school teacher and Cora Buzzelle. On 1900, Cora had divorced from Henry because of financial problems and then she moved to Camden, Maine with her daughters. She was a hard working woman who encouraged her daughters to read and tolove it. Edna went to a public High School where she worked as the magazine editor from 1905 to 1909. She published her first great poem called “Renascence” in 1912 and when an officer of the Young Women’s Christian Association heard Edna read her poem, the officer helped Edna get a scholarship for Vassar College. While being at Vassar College Edna published many poems and rebelled against manyrules which protected female students, but still she graduated with A.B in 1917. After graduating she moved to NYC where she acted with Provincetown Players, and had relationships with many men like Floyd Dell or Arthur Davison Ficke. In 1919 she wrote and directed an act against war with fiction characters called Aria da Capo which she published later and was sold like” hot bread out of the oven”.Having united with Vanity Fair, Edna started enjoying of her novels selling very well and getting very well paid also. She was still into having affairs with other men which drove her into having to abort a baby. After using some of her money for travelling with her mother she was named the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. After that she married a 43 year old man called Eugen JanBoissevain. Edna and her husband travelled around the world in 1924 and then settled on a 700 acres farmland close to Austerlitz, NY in 1925. Soon Edna created the libretto “The King’s Henchman” which was the ignauration for The Metropolitan Opera of New York in 1927. Later Edna helped protesting in the Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti case which was about two anarchists and agitators beingexecuted for a crime in which they weren’t proven guilty. Edna was imprisoned and she wrote another novel. During prison time she was given much recognition like her election to the National Institute Of Arts and Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Soon after this she got depressed by the death of a very close friend of hers, her mother’s death and her father’s death. In 1944Edna had a nervous breakdown which didn’t allow her to write for 2 years. She and her husband had drinking problems which were the cause of her death in the 1930’s





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Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
Beats upon my heart.
People twist and scream in pain,—
Dawn will find them still again;
This has neither wax nor wane,
Neither stop nor...