Edna St. Vincent Millay

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An American poet and playwright who wrote poems about love and women's rights

proper noun
/ˈɛdnə seɪnt ˈvɪnsənt mɪˈleɪ/

: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923.

Examples

The poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay continue to inspire readers around the world.
Many critics admire the bold themes explored by Edna St. Vincent Millay in her work.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a talented poet.
I admire Edna St. Vincent Millay!
Edna St. Vincent Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923.
Many critics admire the bold themes explored by Edna St. Vincent Millay in her work.
The poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay continue to inspire readers around the world.

Synonyms

Millay

vsEdna St. Vincent Millay

Literature

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An American poet famous for musical poems and support for women's rights

is the fuller form, adding the playwright role and full personal name

Surface Forms

Edna St. Vincent Millay main

Morphology

Edna + St. + Vincent + Millay

This item is a proper name; knowing the constituent tokens ('Edna', 'St.', 'Vincent', 'Millay') only indicates a personal name but does not let a learner deduce the referent or that she was a specific American poet and playwright. Proper names are arbitrary referents (and 'St.' here is part of the name, not the literal 'saint'), so the MWE’s biographical meaning is not derivable from its parts.

Etymology

Edna St. Vincent Millay used her full three-part name on her work, a musical and memorable name you can imagine signing at the end of a poem. So her name now helps people remember the bold, 'lyrical' poems she wrote and her strong voice for women's freedom.