The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)

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While other volumes of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry debated the struggle between life, love, and beauty versus loss, bitterness, and death, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems was the first collection to focus on Millay’s acceptance of death’s inevitability. Love of life and adoration of beauty—two of Millay’s prominent themes—are still present in this work, but they are relegated to a position of lesser significance as she concedes to perhaps the greater force. Her concession, however, is tinged with an ever-present defiance as she attempts...

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