Renascence and Other Poems

Download or read book Renascence and Other Poems written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renascence and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay..... "Renascence" (also "Renasance") is a 1912 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, credited with introducing her to the wider world, and often considered one of her finest poems. The poem is a 200+ line lyric poem, written in the first person, broadly encompassing the relationship of an individual to humanity and nature. The narrator is contemplating a vista from a mountaintop. Overwhelmed by nature, and thoughts of human suffering, the narrator empathetically feels the deaths of others, and feels pressed into a grave. Friendly rain brings the narrator back to joy in life-the rebirth, or "renascence," of the title.