An Analysis of the Women in Millay’s Sonnets (653 words, 3 pages)
Stacy Carson HubbardThe speakers of Millays sonnets, many of whom draw upon thecarpe diem motif, could never be accused of sexual coyness they areoutspoken in their defiance of both Death and lovers whose possessiveness resemblesDeaths embrace. Itemizing the womans bodily charms as perishable commodities,the blazon identifies the poet-lover both with ...
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