This poem's speaker feels a "fierce fire [crawling] about a thousand people" and hears "a thousand screams" when two ships sink after crashing at sea.
This poem's speaker feels a "fierce fire [crawling] about a thousand people" and hears "a thousand screams" when two ships sink after crashing at sea. That speaker is subjected to a power that shows her the "gossiping of friendly spheres" and "[t]he How and Why of all things," making her feel like a "fearful pawn." This poem caused a scandal after losing to an Orrick Johns work in a poetry contest held by The Lyric Year. Twice, this poem describes a "drenched and dripping apple-tree," soaked by a rain that "wash[es] my grave away from me." The speaker of this poem, which was written from Mt. Battie in (*) Camden, Maine, tries to touch the sky as Infinity descends on her. This poem's speaker imagines being buried in the ground and then being raised back out of it, and concludes that "he whose soul is flatÂ—the sky will cave in on him by and by." For 10 points, name this poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay that begins, "All I could see from where I stood was three long mountains and a wood."
This poem's speaker feels a "fierce fire [crawling] about a thousand people" and hears "a thousand screams" when two ships sink after crashing at sea.
"Renascence"