Poetry The Endangered Art
“I, being born a woman and distressed…” Those are the beginning words of a poem wrote by one of America’s most renowned poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Literarily avant-guard for her time, she was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for her works in 1925. Yet with trend setters such as Millay, why is poetry an endangered art form? Having disappeared from the literary reviews, found in anthologies and circled among a privileged few, it seems that it is no longer available to the masses as it once was (Gioia).
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on February 22nd, 1892 in Rockland Maine. Born to a middle class family, by the age of 7 years old, Edna was being brought up by a single mother of three girls. Always encouraged by her mother to be self reliant and determined, she was introduced by her, to classical literature and music. While attending high school, where she was editor in chief of the school newspaper, her first great poem, Renascence, was published in an anthology......
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