BA #12**

C. Millay's "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" is a great example of a feminist poet writing to show society what a woman's perspective on war is. The imagery of the birds vanishing shows that this particular women has had lovers, and they have gone to war and died. She now has no birds, or men in her life because there are none left. The birds are male, so readers can assume that Millay is referring to a hawk, or an eagle. Men were the one's who were shipped off to war, not the women. They were left at home. Many women did not marry because there were no men left. What would you think about if this poem were written by a man? Is the woman in the poem necessarily promiscuous? Do you think the woman will move on from the lost birds?