1. 'I, being born a woman and distressed' by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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- 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
- Sexual lust
- Theme
- Social double standards
- Women's equality
- Context
- Edna St Vincent Millay
- Divorced father (root of feminism)
- Openly bisexual
- Feminist activist
- Edna St Vincent Millay
- Theme
- Social double standards
- Women's equality
- Characters
- Speaker
- Woman who desires to have sex
- Talks directly to lover
- Speaker
- 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
- Gives breathy feel
- Rhyme scheme
- ababccdd
- Inconsistent
- Original abab pairing suggests they are couple
- Dwindling rhyme scheme suggests two are moving further apart.
- 1 stanza
- Portrayal of love
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