![]() ![]() ![]() “‘People fall in love with me … and annoy me and distress me and flatter me and excite me.’ And she responded in kind there were torrid affairs with girls at school, adding to her campus notoriety, and tepid flings with older men who might help her career. Several years older than her fellow freshmen (who were women, as at the time it was an all-girls school), she soon became aware of her power to attract members of both sexes, and used this to her advantage in her journey to become one of the most celebrated poet of the 1920s and 1930s.Īccording to J.D. Vincent, as she preferred to be called, entered Vassar College in 1913 at age 21. In hindsight unjustly, er reputation began waning even before her untimely death. It has been argued that tales of Millay’s love life have eclipsed her reputation as a poet - and that this should be corrected, as she was a brilliant poet. Some of Millay’s love poems hint at cynicism, others sorrow, while others still reflect a women in full charge of her sexuality and aware of her power over those whose hearts she won - or broke. Following is a small sampling of love poems by Edna St. ![]() Vincent Millay wasn’t considered a confessional poet, her prolific love life was often reflected in her lines, sometimes obliquely, other times directly. ![]()
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