Edna St. Vincent Millay defied the times in which a woman was to operate, in her life style, and in her poems, "Renascence", "My candle burns at both ends", and "I forgot in Camelot, the man I loved in Rome." She was one of the best known poets of the 1900's. Her poems were said to be delicate but outspoken (World book 1968). While in school in addition to being an exceptional student her teachers also …showed first 75 words of 736 total…

…showed last 75 words of 736 total…I loved in Rome (Rollens 329). As a result, from Edna St. Vincent Millay's poems she did in fact defy the times in which a woman was to operate, in her life style, and in her poems. She showed in her lifestyle, her longing to be independent, and in her poems such as "Renascence", "My candle burns at both ends", and "I forgot in Camelot the man I loved in Rome" she displayed how she felt.