Her mother, Cora Millay, saw an announcement for a poetry contest sponsored by The Lyric Year, an annual volume of poetry, and encouraged Edna to enter the poem into the contest. The poem may have been influenced by Millay's childhood experience of nearly drowning. Battie in Camden, Maine (where a plaque now commemorates the writing of the poem). At some point, Millay wrote "Renascence" while looking out from the summit of Mt. Nicholas, a children's magazine, throughout her teen years, and had become a proficient poet. Millay had written and published poetry in St. Millay's fame began in 1912 when the nineteen-year-old, encouraged by her mother, entered her poem "Renascence" in a poetry contest in The Lyric Year. Publication history and importance to Millay's career Friendly rain brings the narrator back to joy in life-the rebirth, or "renascence", of the title. Overwhelmed by nature, and thoughts of human suffering, the narrator empathetically feels the deaths of others, and feels pressed into a grave. The narrator is contemplating a vista from a mountaintop. The poem is a 200+ line lyric poem, written in the first person, broadly encompassing the relationship of an individual to humanity and nature. Vincent Millay, credited with introducing her to the wider world, and often considered one of her finest poems.
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