All week, the New York Times has been hosting activities for readers to explore the poem ‘Recuerdo’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and it has been a fun and informative challenge. It’s a great poem, and all of the audio clips and interactive activities have really done the work of bringing the poem (centered on a night on a New York City ferry) alive in my mind.
As today’s piece suggests, though:
“But the question nonetheless arises: Now that you have this poem, what do you do with it? One obvious answer, suggested by our young friend and implied in Millay’s last lines, is to pass it along. These three stanzas are a gift, a souvenir offered by the poet to whomever might have been with her on that ferry ride and, equally, to everyone who wasn’t.”
New York Times
And so, I will gift you, my reader, with a link to the final post. May you find some escape in the poem, too.
Peace (and poem),
Kevin