Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Course Hero. "I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines Study Guide." Course Hero. 10 Jan. 2020. Web. 30 May 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/I-Will-Put-Chaos-Into-Fourteen-Lines/>.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
1954
Poem
Allegory, Philosophy
The poem "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines" is written in the first-person point of view. The speaker of the poem is a poet whose perspective may be closely allied with that of the author, Edna St. Vincent Millay.
"I will put Chaos into fourteen lines" begins in the future tense, as the speaker describes something she intends to do. It switches into present tense as the speaker claims to "have" Chaos. The poem's final lines revisit the future tense as the speaker once again describes what she will do with Chaos.
In the poem "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines," the speaker states her intention to confine a personified Chaos in the 14 lines of a sonnet and thereby create a poem.
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