Comparison of Elizabeth Browning and Edna St Vincent Essay Example

crucial in poems, as they express the poets thought more in depth and give their readers a better view about what the poets is trying to convey to them. In sonnet 29 the poet uses anaphors a lot for example “Pity me not because the light of day…Pity me not for the beauties passed…Pity me not the waning of the moon…. (Millay 153). The poet dose this to stress on the issue the poem is discussing like for example if you are trying to say that everything is green you could say, the green chair, the green mat, the green wall paper, the green slippers. It focuses the reader on what the poet want to say. Personifications are also used a lot in this sonnet, for example, “day no longer walks the sky”, “heart is slow to learn”, and “the swift mind beholds a