Death, a normal process of life that everyone will experience. It may sound scary to others as they approach it and leave “life” or it might bring sadness and sorrow to those who are living on earth and suffering from the lost love from a relative to a close friend to a lover. In “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St.Vincent Millay, the speaker describes death as a painful process, sorrow and grief toward a dead lover. She creates a scenario of how death takes one into the ground and refuses to accept the fact that the person is dead by repeating, “I am not resigned”. Her use of structured language like repetition, enumeration and tone, describes the death that she never wants to face or admit. In the beginning, the speaker starts off with saying “I am not resigned” in which she repeats this phrase a lot throughout the poem to clearly express that she is not ok with the fact that the lover goes into the ground even though it has been way that for years. In this stanza the speaker says that over time these people become history and people start to think less of them no…show more content… The title of the poem creates something that is unordinary. “Dirge” is a funeral song. So the title means that it is a quiet funeral, where nothing is being played and everyone is in silence.It foreshadow the opposite tones and thoughts that her poem beholds. To some readers, it might provide comfort as they can relate to her experience and how hard it is to lose a loved one because of “life”. Throughtout the poem, the speaker felt lonely and sad about losing someone that meant everything to her. She shifted her tone in the second stanza to the third as she was describing how dead’s soul and spirit feeds the roses. Overall, she created a gloomy tone to the
