Chaos In Fourteen Lines
Chaos in Fourteen Lines
The poem “I will put Chaos into fourteen lines” by Edna St. Vincent Millay has to do with Chaos’s epic struggle to free itself from the bondage of the prison of fourteen lines and its ultimate defeat to Order. However, upon closer inspection, the poem appears to be an ars poetica that describes the process of writing fixed form poetry and all the trials that come with expressing poetry in words.
The question and the goal of the poem is spelled out in the first line with Millay declaring that she will trap Chaos into fourteen lines and let him struggle to escape. Chaos gives a great struggle, but is defeated in the end despite his “adroit designs” and “arrogance.” He is somehow confined in an arbitrarily small space and is then bounded and assimilated by Order. After Chaos’s assimilation, a confession out of Chaos, but Millay will instead merely “make him good.” This cannot actually happen, as Chaos is a condition of great disorder, or in Greek mythology,......
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