Marisa Cuni week 11

Poetic Review of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed and Where, and Why” This week, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnet “what lips my lips have kissed and where, and why” attracted my attention. The speaker addresses their state of unhappiness and despair, which represents an intangible outcome yet plagues them with their memorial happiness as a result of innumerable unsuccessful minor affairs. The poem is structured in sonnet form, with the initial lines illustrating the abba rhyme scheme (Mannion, 2020). Nonetheless, the poet’s author maximizes sonnet usage by incorporating mood change in the poem’s ninth line, so inserting another rhyme scheme of CDE CDE, which may aid in memory formation. By combining the latter rhyme pattern with the change in mood, the speakers address their current state of romance, or more precisely, their romantic position. He confesses that males have demonstrated no major feelings worthy of securing memories in the speaker’s mind by enquiring as to which lips are being referred to, and the location of their kiss has been forgotten. Additionally, the speaker of the poem acknowledges the profound anguish of unremarkable lads who will not turn against them with a midnight cry. While the speaker conveys much anguish in their laments over their past lover birds, the speaker deduces that the love encounters between them and their lovers involved a large number of unmemorable males, as indicated by their inability to satisfy the speaker’s romantic demands (Mannion, 2020). Despite each romantic partner’s insignificance, the poem’s character references to pleasant summers and the lights that projected them. As a result, the persona experiences the universal affection and camaraderie that every being requires. Additionally, the persona accepts that they are ultimately unmemorable and unremarkable despite their former love experiences, with sufficiently lost feelings to displace an individual’s symbolic recall. In a nutshell, “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, Where, and Why” highlights some of each person’s greatest quests. As a result, it advises that one should constantly adhere to what they perceive to be true for oneself while also following their intuitions.