"Lament" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. by Delaney J https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44 analyzing a lament en-us 2022-03-25 12:52:08 UTC 2022-03-28 12:28:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/26b0.png djohnson204 https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44/wish/2113739587 Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
And the dead be forgotten;
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.
]]> 2022-03-25 12:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44/wish/2113739587 literary devices djohnson204 https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44/wish/2113742177 Repetition;
 "I'll make you little"
"Life must go on" 
"shall have the"


]]> 2022-03-25 12:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44/wish/2113742177 non narrative djohnson204 https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44/wish/2113742949 This lament is non-narrative because it only features a widow telling her children that their father has died. This character is telling these children that he will recycle all of their father's possessions and they must also forget the grief. There is no setting. Only a monologue of someone talking to children. ]]> 2022-03-25 12:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44/wish/2113742949 Rhythm, rythm & structure djohnson204 https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44/wish/2113743584
There is rythm when the poet puts stress on the last word of
some lines, one line is "To make a pretty noise with."
There is only one pair of rhyme in this lament.
Though good men die; 
4 lines later
I forget such why.]]> 2022-03-25 12:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44/wish/2113743584 grief/loss djohnson204 https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44/wish/2113744036 The greif/loss is from Anne and Dan's father passing away. They will feel more grief from the fact that they have to reuse their fathers possessions.]]> 2022-03-25 12:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/djohnson204/usd2hf6ffinxuh44/wish/2113744036