A Study Guide for Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Conscientious Objector"
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Conscientious Objector
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1934
Introduction
Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem Conscientious Objector
was included in her 1934 collection of poetry, Wine From These Grapes.Conscientious Objector
is thirteen lines of free verse, loosely arranged in five uneven stanzas. This poem is a departure from pentameter, which Millay frequently used earlier in her career. The first few lines of Conscientious Objector
personify Death as an aggressive man who mounts his horse and moves quickly to find his next victims. During the 1930s Millay engaged in social and political activism, and this poem expresses her pacifism through its personification of death, its condemnation of war and race hatred, and its depiction of victims of violence. Conscientious Objector
is included in Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956), which was reissued in 1992.
Author Biography
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born February 22, 1892, in Rockland, Maine, the oldest of three daughters born to Henry Dolman Millay, a school teacher and school superintendent, and his wife, Cora Buzzelle Millay. Her parents' marriage ended in 1899 when Cora Millay could no longer tolerate her husband's gambling. Although Mrs. Millay had been trained to be an opera singer, she began working as a practical nurse to support her three daughters. While their mother worked, the three Millay girls were often left on their own. Although her childhood might be considered unconventional and was sometimes difficult, Millay occupied herself with reading and music. She took piano lessons and began to write poetry at age five. She had several of her poems published in a children's magazine, St. Nicholas between 1906 and 1910. Millay's mother encouraged her daughter to enter her poetry in a contest sponsored by The Lyric Year, a literary anthology. Although her poems did not win a prize, one poem, Renascence
received much praise. After a school director offered to help pay for her education, Millay entered Vassar College, from