1. 'I, being born a woman and distressed' by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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  • Created by: Alasdair
  • Created on: 13-06-17 19:23
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  • 1. 'I, being born a woman and distressed' by Edna St. Vincent Millay
    • Portrayal of love
      • Sexual lust
        • Links to 'To his coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell
      • Annoyance at lack of success
    • Theme
      • Social double standards
      • Women's equality
    • Context
      • Edna St Vincent Millay
        • Divorced father (root of feminism)
        • Openly bisexual
        • Feminist activist
    • Theme
      • Social double standards
      • Women's equality
    • Characters
      • Speaker
        • Woman who desires to have sex
        • Talks directly to lover
    • Endings
      • Negative
      • Feels little reason to talk to the person she wanted to have sex with again
    • Tone
      • Seductive
      • Disappointed
      • Venomous
      • Frustration
    • Structure
      • 1 stanza
        • Suggests one consistent strong thought of anger
        • Intensifies one subject
      • Enjambment
        • Gives breathy feel
          • Suggests anger?
        • Could give consistency to one powerful thought
      • Rhyme scheme
        • ababccdd
        • Inconsistent
        • Original abab pairing suggests they are couple
        • Dwindling rhyme scheme suggests two are moving further apart.

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