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Sad Four Stars
What this play dramatizes greed, mistrust, murder, superficial actions within marital life -illuminating despair. The lack of hope in this piece is what makes me give it only four stars. There are people who see anything this author does as golden. I have not studied her poetry. Milay puts into a theatrical context sadness of human nature's lack of loving.

An adolescent in the 60s, I lived two years in Southern Illinois, while my father served in South Vietnam, in the USAF. The high school I attended used "Aria Da Capo" for their annual theater competitions. I had modest professional theater experiences through my mother, an equity actress. So I got casted as female lead, `Columbine.' I was the only girl with four boys, such a deal! We won every competition, traveling all over Illinois. As an adult I recognized the significance competing with Chicago students. At a class reunion in Illinois one fellow remembered a line from the show. I was astounded a classmate could retain lines for me forgotten for decades. But I did not ever forget the quite dramatic relatively dark themes running through this play.

So I recently purchased a copy again . . . the core messages in the script ultimately are depressing - killing over ownership, some cores of war. Serious study of war began for me reacting to the Cuban Missile Crisis. War is hell, but so are many places in this world. Communism (a theme in this play too) is another form of hell on earth. What the fall of the Soviet Union has taught me, education has limitations. The Russian mafia many have PhDs (Read "Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State). Thank God Bill Gates didn't let formal education get in his way, not that he is a saint, but he's created great opportunities.

This is also a framework play- play within a play - the marriage is the `inside' play. Her characters are done in white face using mismatched puppets, Columbine and Pierrot. The symbolism is powerful.

When this was written people stayed married. Milay, popular during roaring twenties was making a mockery of marriage. Well people don't stay married today. The raveling of marriage has impacted the crime rate, mental illness growth, what will our country look like fifty years from today? What we watch effects our behavior, this is a highly cerebral work, certainly better than the gratuitous sex and violence of today. Mother Teresa says the real poverty is in the West.

Doing this performance did lead to other opportunities for all of us- however a dark depressing piece of work - for a bunch of teenagers, it did effect my thinking. Illuminating the weaknesses of behaviors the play gives nothing to off set despair, no light of hope are found within these lines. So only four stars.

Hmmmmmmm . . . I will begin playwriting for adolescents to perform now . . .
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Lines written in passion and in deep concern for England, France and my own country. Set by hand in Bulmer type at the Golden Hind Press in Madison, New Jersey. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Edna St. Vincent Millay, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 6509 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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One of America's best-loved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted sonnets have thrilled generations of readers long after the notoriously bohemian lifestyle she led in Greenwich Village in the 1920s ceased to shock them. Millay's refreshing frankness and cynicism and her ardent appetite for life still burn brightly on the page more than half a century after her death. ... Read more

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What should I be but a prophet and a liar?
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets collection has a special place in my heart, and this collection //Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems// demonstrates all the reasons why.As the imprint's name implies, these are small, sturdy volumes, uncluttered with essays, introductions, or annotations, instead offering readers the undiluted nectar of the poet's own words.Thus, one is spared lengthy biographical details of Millay (rich and ribald though they may be), and may focus on her work.Also included with the poems is one of her plays.Although this volume is far from a compilation of her complete works, the works included are well-chosen.

Millay's poetry--rhythmic, naturalistic, and enchantingly sparse-- continues to demonstrate why she stands as one of America's greatest poets, and this book, for the right reader, will surely be a treasured companion for years to come.

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 244 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more