What My Lips Have Kissed Analysis
The two poems I chose to write about are Elizabeth Bishops “One Art” and “What my lips have kissed” by Edna St. Vincent Millay’s. I chose both of these because they both in a way are describing love, and loss for something or someone. Even though they do not come right out and say it, both poems deal with love and the loss they have experienced. In Bishops poem she talks about how losing comes at ease and how nothing that has been lost has been disastrous. However, in the last stanza of her poem I believe she is talking about the loss of her lover and her talking about it in her poem is how she is coping. She says “may look like (Write it!) like disaster” in the last stanza of her poem is how I believe she is coping with the loss of her lover.
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Vincent Millay’s it is about how her lovers have come and gone. Which is like Bishops poem because in a way she is losing over and over again because she says “I cannot say what loves have come and gone.” Referring to the love she has lost over time because she is no longer in love with them, or she was still in love with them where they were not in love with her anymore. She then says “And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain” is stating her heart is hurting because she is lonely now reminiscing on the love she once had, and she does not have now. In this poem I strongly believe like we talked about in class is her remembering of all of her past lovers, or that she does not have anyone to love her anymore. Which is a lot like Bishops poem granted bishops poem was not all about love, but we can infer that towards the end of the poem it was. Due to the fact in the end of the poem is talking about the suicide of her lover. The love she lost and how she was not a disaster when clearly she was left in a state of loneliness just like Millay’s in her poem. Millay’s diction tells us she is lonely by stating “I have forgotten, and what arms have lain” meaning that she forgets what a lover’s arms feel
Vincent Millay’s it is about how her lovers have come and gone. Which is like Bishops poem because in a way she is losing over and over again because she says “I cannot say what loves have come and gone.” Referring to the love she has lost over time because she is no longer in love with them, or she was still in love with them where they were not in love with her anymore. She then says “And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain” is stating her heart is hurting because she is lonely now reminiscing on the love she once had, and she does not have now. In this poem I strongly believe like we talked about in class is her remembering of all of her past lovers, or that she does not have anyone to love her anymore. Which is a lot like Bishops poem granted bishops poem was not all about love, but we can infer that towards the end of the poem it was. Due to the fact in the end of the poem is talking about the suicide of her lover. The love she lost and how she was not a disaster when clearly she was left in a state of loneliness just like Millay’s in her poem. Millay’s diction tells us she is lonely by stating “I have forgotten, and what arms have lain” meaning that she forgets what a lover’s arms feel