Allen, I think this forum is certainly wide open for discussions of what any poet means in any particular poem, but I am made uncomfortable by anyone "correcting" a poet's poem, for any reason--even as a joke, unless it is clearly just a joke and not really intended as a criticism--and it looks worse when a man does it to a woman's poem. It is rather like "mansplaining," and it certainly sounds like a putdown of Millay, as do many of your comments about her and about the poem. Can we agree that not everyone has to like every poem or every poet without being insulting to the poet (even the dead ones who cannot take offense)?
Susan
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