Usually winter is associated with cold, grey, dreary days. To be alone in the winter could suggest she’s alone for the holidays as well which could associate with her sadness. If she celebrated with loves in the past, these silent days could affect her moods. Millay’s use of a lonely tree could mean she doesn’t see the change into winter as a brightening change. She could feel her beauty has fallen with age, as the leaves of the lonely tree. Her choice of the word vanished suggests that the birds did not fly visibly away, but that their absence was noted after they had gone. Alike, her former self did not suddenly fly away, but was eventually seen to have vanished. Though the tree knows its limbs more silent than before, suggests that she knows her life was livelier than what it is now. She can’t remember what has happened in the past or recollect all of the previous memories of the lads but she knows now it was never this lonely and quiet in her
Usually winter is associated with cold, grey, dreary days. To be alone in the winter could suggest she’s alone for the holidays as well which could associate with her sadness. If she celebrated with loves in the past, these silent days could affect her moods. Millay’s use of a lonely tree could mean she doesn’t see the change into winter as a brightening change. She could feel her beauty has fallen with age, as the leaves of the lonely tree. Her choice of the word vanished suggests that the birds did not fly visibly away, but that their absence was noted after they had gone. Alike, her former self did not suddenly fly away, but was eventually seen to have vanished. Though the tree knows its limbs more silent than before, suggests that she knows her life was livelier than what it is now. She can’t remember what has happened in the past or recollect all of the previous memories of the lads but she knows now it was never this lonely and quiet in her