Close Up Of A Sonnet What My Lips Have Kissed And Where And Why By Edna St Vincent Millay

Question 1

Edna was born
She was the first with her ?
Her first book was written when? The ?

Answer 1

1892
Woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923/fourth book
Renascence/ she was very young
Title poem when she was 19

Question 2

Millays command of the sonnet was

Instead of taking the leisurely pace of the public sonnet that had been the ? She ?

Answer 2

Distinctive and unusual
Nineteenth century model
Drove her sonnets forward with a powerful lyric and personal emphasis

Question 3

Her sonnets rely heavily on

They are pieces of ? To such an extent that they almost

Answer 3

Sibilance assonance and alliteration

Music/ destabilize the tradition of the sonnet as a measured argument

Question 4

The ability of the sonnet to accommodate both ?

Made it a perfect vehicle for twentieth century poets like Millay

Answer 4

Lyric and reflective time

Question 5

Here she uses her ? To produce and unusually ? In the first ? Then a ? More ? Where the ?

Answer 5

Music and high diction
Quick paced poem in the first octave
Slower/ reflective sestet
Abandoned lover becomes a winter tree