e styles(Millay par. 11). Millay’s writing was noted as being extremely personal, writing of herself and her love affairs, but many reflect wider concerns. Millay, for this matter, in today’s world, would be a very happy woman. Freedom of speech and freedom of write is very diverse in today’s America, people are experimenting with different ways of writing all the time. The writing that is widely appreciated, is non-fictional. People don’t want to read the expected; they want to read the truth. Honestly, people like to read the juicy stuff; that is the material that keep people reading.Millay’s work often included nature and the search for the “integrity of the individual spirit”(Gray 122). Her very personal work did become political on several occasions. Millay was outraged by the atrocities of Hitler and she addressed her talent to the war effort. The result of this was Make Bright the Arrows. Also Millay published “The Murder Lidice” which was designed as a propaganda piece recounting the German destruction of Czech village and was published by the Writer’s War Board(Millay par. 9). Millay was a very out spoken person, she would let people know how she felt about an important event or tragedy. In today’s America, people are doing this left and right; yes it may be annoying, but Millay was doing hers in a civil fashion; she wrote it on paper. I think that kind of writing would be appreciated and applauded. These war poems that she wrote are often noted as the point where Millay fell out of her popular appeal, although many critics now point to her last poem, Mine The Harvest, which was said to be some of her best workMillay, in her time, was recognized for the “boundaries of conventional subject matter for women writer, while showing the range and the depth of the feminine character” (Quartermain 276) and for achieving success in composition of ...
