Review Of The Spring And The Fall By Edna St. Vincent...

Jing Yuh Huang T. Tyson AP English 12 (Pd.3) March 11, 2015 An Evaluation of â€Å"The Spring and The Fall† by Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay is one of the most famous poets in the early nineteenth century. She was knowns for being a spectacular American lyric poet whose personal life and verse burned meteorically through the imaginations of rebellious youth in her work during the 1920s (Poetry Foundation). Millay’s literatures consist of many unique mind set and language that brings the author and reader together, which procured the world’s attention. Many people know Millay through her unique entry into the world of poets. She gained fame through both eroding the ideas of love yet at the same time building up ideas of love, like in â€Å"The Spring and The Fall†. Majority of Millay’s work focuses on the subject love. Just like how Millay tends to keep the topic of work very narrow, her writing style is too. Occasionally, there will be a poem that’s has a very different writing style or structure. Most of Millay’s work are sonnets or poems that have a struc ture that is relatively similar to a sonnet, however, the usage of literary devices in the poems may vary depending on how she present the subject and theme of the poem. Through her writing style of the usage of repetition for emphasize, imagery and her word choice, Millay achieves the goal of building a relationship between the reader and the speaker to get to the deeper meaning of the her work, especially in