I like poetry to be honest the problem is to
interpret the poems. What is there style? What do they mean? Why did the author
put this in here?
Well as for the style this poem: consists of four-line stanzas. Within each 4-line stanza, the final words of the 1st and 3rd lines rhyme, as do the final words of the 2nd and 4th lines. It's important to notice that although the meter of
the poem varies in places, each line tends to be
arranged in an iambic form. “Iambic”
are units of 2 syllables where the 1st syllable is unstressed and the 2nd
is stressed.
Now this should answer your question; when the reader like you and me read the
poem we can notice that each stanza has a complete thought. The Courage That My Mother Had, shows us that Millay’s sensibility may have matured but
that she is still stressed with the themes of her
earlier verse. In the book Edna St. Vincent Millay say’s “The world, which she had held no closer at the beginning of
her life than she did at the end, gave her as much of pain as it did pleasure.
Love, beauty, and life itself had all to be
endured as well as enjoyed.”
