Extra Credit

I search the biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay. It claims, " Millay engaged in affairs with several different men, she believed that love could not endure, that ultimately the grave would have her lover, a sentiment expressed in the line"(web). Thus, in her sonnet, "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why", she says, "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,/ I have forgotten, and what arms have lain.(1-2). Love is forgettable for her.Her love is dreary and lonely like "in the winter stands the lonely tree,/ Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one"(9-10).