Sonnet 29

Sonnet 29
In 'Sonnet 29' by Edna ST Vincent Millay, the woman manages to explain the situation and to convey her feelings by means of showing how much pain a woman feels when love is starting toend, and by describing love as something that has a start and little by little ends. Moreover, by relating love to nature, showing us that what happen to her may happen to any of us and showing it assomething fragile that is constantly changing. Last but not least, by asking not to be pitied about natural things that happen in love's path, but to be pitied about how much those things hurt after theyhappen.
To start with, we can see how much she suffered from the moment she realized the love his lover felt for her is slowly fading. The woman clearly shows this when she writes 'Pity me not forbeauties past away/ From field to thicket as the year goes by;'. The fact that 'beauties past away' may mean that everything that is beautiful won't stay that way forever, in this case it could berealated to women, saying that all of them will grow older, lose their charm and eventually die, or also it could be refering to the beauty of love which declines until there is no more present. Thewriter conveys the idea that the transition is very painful and takes time, such as the fields do until they become thickets. The woman has to suffer from the moment she realizes he does not love heranymore until the wound, that past love left, heals. We can relate this image to love being perfect and bright when it just starts and how it becomes something unclear, complicated and dull as time passeson.
To go on, the woman conveys love as something which has a start and an ending. 'Pity me not for the waning of the moon;/ Nor that the ebbening tide goes out to sea' we can see how she has animage of love as something beautiful and glowing which slowly and gradually starts to fade away. She is creating a paralelism between love and the moon. She is showing how the moon loses its radiance...