Edna St. Vincent Millay's Fatal Interview

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Fatal Interview “Millay is the poetic voice of eternal youth, feminine revolt and liberation, and potent sensitivity and suggestiveness. Her best and most representative themes are bittersweet love, sorrow, the inevitability of change, resignation, death, and ever-abiding nature.” Robert Gale One of the best known women authors of her time, as well as one of the better paid, Edna St. Vincent Millay had already become an accomplished writer before her …showed first 75 words of 1646 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1646 total…may not be held in such high regard as some of her other works, it most definitely should be. It’s sonnets serve almost like a photograph of the feelings of a woman living during a time when all men were created equal, and woman were struggling to be. Her poetry opened doors for a new generation of women writers, and laid a foundation for how the works of women writer’s are viewed today.