Edna St.
Vincent Millay's "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where and Why"
is an effective short poem, which feeds on the dissonance between the ideal of
love and its reality, heartbreak. Both poems revolve around the consistency of
love, whether existent or not, though their discrepancies are valid, it is
these discrepancies, which provide readers with the conception and
comprehension of what true love really is. These two writers truly have
differentiating concepts of love, which compliment the personas pertaining to
the creation of these poems.
Hey Sukari, adding to what you said that both readers have a different conception of what love is. From "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" By William Shakespeare, from what i read i can tell that for him love is not what everybody think it is, or how everyone pictures it. "Admit impediments; love is not love/ Which alters when it alteration finds,/ or bends with the remover to remove." (2-4). Being in love means dealing with all the "Alterations" that come with it, the arguments, the ups and down. And because you going through a rough time you will give up, you will "remove" it. In the other hand, in "What lips my lips have kissed, and where and why" By Edna St. Vincent Millay. I interpret it as a woman that is lonely, who doesn't know what love is anymore, that does not know what it is going to sleep with someone and waking up with them in the morning, "I have forgotten, and what arms have lain/ Under my head till morning; but the rain" (2-3).
ReplyDeleteSukari- can you provide examples of "dissonance between the ideal of love and its reality, heartbreak"? Who are the "personas pertaining to the creation of these poems"? This sounds like a wonderful introduction to an essay, and I'd love to read the rest of it.
ReplyDeleteCristal- great observations. I really like your point about dealing with alterations in Shakespeare's sonnet, and the loneliness in Millay's sonnet.