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- I, Being Born A Woman And Distressed
- Context- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- poem written 3 years after women got the right to vote in America 1923
- untraditional, one night stands were not common, modern ideas
- deemed to be controversial
- 1892-1950
- called herself Vincent as a child, her teachers refused
- openly bisexual
- feminist activist
- won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry- only 3rd woman ever
- married in 1923, open marriage
- activist in WWI- pacifist, but supported WWII which damaged her reputation
- used her poetry to comment on social expectations of women
- Context- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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