Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay

Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay — page 3
ring poems One of her most well known poems sums up her approach to life My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah my foes and oh my friends It gives a lovely light The life of Edna St Vincent Millay was filled with adventure art beauty love and sometimes pain I believe that her story teaches us to face life with eagerness and honesty to work for what we desire to be brave in small moments and big ones to live as we believe is right for us and to appreciate and exhil arate in the world's beauty When Vincent was 20 in a letter to a new friend who questioned whether her poem was about some thing she found in a book she wrote indignantly T1 slap your face I see things with my own eyes just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw and then I set about to tell as best I can just what I've seen In this book I try to look at Vincent s story with my own eyes both the eyes of the girl who discov ered her poetry and those of the woman who appreci ates what it took to live her life and to tell her story as best I can Page 13