Ragged Island (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Ragged Island” is a twenty-four-line descriptive poem that expresses the poet’s deep connection to the Maine island in Casco Bay where she and her husband summered for many years. She meditates on the distinctive attributes of this island and its beneficial effects. Intimate in its approach, the poem addresses an unspecified “you,” most likely Millay herself, no stranger to Ragged Island.
The opening gesture of the poem is a fifteen-line segment punctuated as a single sentence. The first and last lines of this segment begin...
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