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Fatal Interview
Fatal Interview
Patricia A. Klemans (Essay Date 1979)
SOURCE: Klemans, Patricia A. "'Being Born a Woman': A New Look at Edna St. Vincent Millay." In Critical Essays on Edna St. Vincent Millay, edited by William B. Thesing, pp. 200-12. New York: G. K. Hall, 1993.
In the following essay, originally published in 1979, Klemans argues that Fatal Interview is important and innovative because it presents a new type of female poetic personality while utilizing the form of traditional love poetry—a genre previously dominated by male poets.
I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body's weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again...
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body's weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again...
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