Tag: Edna St VIncent Millay

poetry appreciation

answering light

May 6, 2021 #ageing, #change, #Child Waking, #commitment, #courage, #death, #Deaths of Flowers, #Edith Scovell, #Edna St VIncent Millay, #fear, #Figs from Thistles, #freedom, #hope, #My candle burns at both ends, #Scovell, #St Vincent Millay by Lucy Crispin

Someone brought ‘Child waking’ by Edith Scovell to the 42 group last week. The poet’s name was vaguely familiar but I had no sense of her work. I loved ‘Child waking’, though, so since then I’ve been scuttling about the interweb looking for Scovell’s work. And I give you: ‘Deaths of Flowers‘.

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poetry appreciation

I do not approve

Jun 18, 2020 #anger, #bewilderment, #complaint, #denial, #Dirge WIthout Music, #Edna St VIncent Millay, #fury, #grief, #heartbreak, #loss, #powerlessness, #rage, #stages of grief by Lucy Crispin

Someone confided in me, earlier this week, their feelings in re: all the pain, confusion and madness in the world at the moment: “I don’t like it”. It was offered as if I was being let into an important secret, and there was something very disarming about it—so honest and un-clever and childlike. Not to mention unarguable. It put me in mind of the wonderful ‘Dirge Without Music‘ by Edna St Vincent Millay. There’s what I think is a very good reading of it there at the Poetry Website (click the red arrow by the title), and a different one here; or you could enjoy this fragment which, I think, catches the same mood as the PF reading. Have a listen. See what you think.

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