Millay Vs Cummings
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"Lament" by Edna St. Vincent Millay and "Since Felling Is First by e.e. Cummings
are two very different poems. The poems are diiferent in style and tone.
In Millay's poem "Lament" the theme is dealing with death an ho we must act in
order to accept it. In "since Feeling Is First, Cumming's theme ....
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.... how the wife feels that "Life must go on". (21) although she
has forgotton just why. The wife is trying to forget about her husbands death:
"and the dead be forgottne" (16). The tone of (since feeling is first" is a
happy tone. A man is telling his girlfriend to enjoy life and stop being so
serious.
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Page count: 1 (approximately 250 words per page)
