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    A Study Guide for Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Wild Swans"
    A Study Guide for Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Wild Swans"
    A Study Guide for Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Wild Swans"
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    A Study Guide for Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Wild Swans"

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    A Study Guide for Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Wild Swans," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535843027
    A Study Guide for Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Wild Swans"

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      A Study Guide for Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Wild Swans" - Gale

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      Wild Swans

      Edna St. Vincent Millay

      1921

      Introduction

      In 1921, two volumes of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry were published in New York: A Few Figs from Thistles and Second April. The latter contains many poems about Millay's romantic disappointments and heartbreaks. These poems are sometimes passionate and sometimes subdued, but they are all intensely personal. Scholars often comment that Millay's poetry is feminine in its focus on emotions, but it also breaks from the feminine tradition in its raw honesty. Wild Swans, which appears in Second April, is a good example of this phenomenon. The speaker expresses traditionally feminine feelings of heartache and despair, but she is less traditional in that she is harsh toward her own heart. Although she focuses on her feelings, she seeks a solution to her emotional upheaval by escaping

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