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Analysis Of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Poem Dirge Without Music

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The poem, Dirge Without Music, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, is expressing that a loss of a loved one can be difficult to overcome. In this poem, the author tends to repeat the same phrase. “I am not resigned” (Millay 1.1). According to the google dictionary being resigned means “Having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about.” The narrator is vocalizing that they have not accepted what has happened to their loved one. With this repetition, the author is trying to cement the idea into the readers mind that the narrator still hasn’t gotten over this loss.
Dirge Without Music is also making the reader feel as if they had lost a loved one, and how that loved one made the narrator feel. “…The laughter, the love, they are
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