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Edna St. Vincent Millay The Courage That My Mother Had. By: Jason Gamble. Born and Family. Born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine Cora Buzzelle Millay Henry Tolman Millay. Schooling. Earned scholarship to Vassar College for writing Renascene Kept writing poems at Vassar Made plays at Vassar - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Courage That My Mother Had
By: Jason Gamble
Born and FamilyBorn in 1892 in Rockland, Maine
Cora Buzzelle Millay
Henry Tolman Millay
SchoolingEarned scholarship to Vassar College for writing
Renascene
Kept writing poems at Vassar
Made plays at Vassar
Provided different sources of information (ex. Culture)
RelationshipsIncluded:
Poet Arthur Davison Ficke
Literary critic Edmund Wilson
MarriageIn 1923 in New York, met businessman Eugen
Boissevain at a party
Married later in same year
Respected and supported each others beliefs
InfluenceMom because:
Raised her alone after divorce
Became an independent person
Looked into her interests
How and When She DiedWorking on poetry collection
Fatal Heart Attack
Died on October 19, 1950 in her home in Austerlitz
The Courage That My Mother Had Poem The courage that my mother had Went with her, and is with her still: Rock from New England quarried; Now granite in a granite hill.
The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear; I have no thing I treasure more: Yet, it is something I could spare.
Oh, if instead she’d left to me
The thing she took into the grave!— That courage like a rock, which she Has no more need of, and I have.
Poetic DeviceFour Line Stanza
Example: “The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear: I have no thing I treasure more: Yet it is something I could spare.”
Final words of first and third lines rhyme
Final words of second and fourth line rhyme
4
Poetic DeviceIambic Tetrameter
Example: “ The golden brooch my mother wore” The gold / en brooch / my mother / er wore
Iambic referred to iambs, 2 syllables where first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed
Tetrameter shows there are four segments (feet) in each line
Poetic DeviceSong / Complete Thought
Example: “The courage that my mother had Went with her, and is with her still: Rock from New England quarried: Now granite in a granite hill.”
Song like quality when read aloud
Each stanza has complete thought
Common Theme Memory
Example: “The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear”
Brooch remembers both living mother and fact that she is dead
Remembers living mother who wore the brooch
Millay wouldn’t have brooch if mother didn’t die
Common ThemeStrength and Weakness
Example: “That courage like a rock, which she Has no more need of, and I have.”
Mother compared to granite, strong and long lasting
Millay needs mother’s courage
Millay also admits her fear
ThemeCourage always stays with you, even when you die.
Examples: “The courage that my mother had Went with her, and is with her still:”
“That courage like a rock, which she Has no more need of, and I have.
Both show how her mother still has courage even when she died.
Courage
Interesting Facts Bad health
Got into car crash in 1936
Health got worse from there on
Interesting FactsAlways Busy
Never kept still
Won Pulitzer Prize in 1923
Granted Honorary degree from Tufts University in 1925
Bibliography"The Courage That My Mother Had." Poetry for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary
Ruby. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 78-89. Gale
Virtual Reference Library. Web. 30 May 2014.