Green - “Being Young and Green”
Green embodies intrinsic naivety which is domineering when one is undeveloped. The speaker’s ingenuousness during childhood elicited the resolution: “I said in love's despite:/Never in the world will I to living wight/Give over, air my mind/To anyone,/Hang out its ancient secrets in the strong wind/To be shredded and faded—.” Based on the determination, the speaker was amateurish in love.
City Trees - “City Trees”
The city trees typify the exhilarating pastoral sentience. The speaker confirms, “The trees along this city street/Save for the traffic and the trains,/Would make a sound as thin and sweet/As trees in country lanes.” The speaker deduces that the trees yield a sound comparable to that of the country trees. Accordingly, the speaker espouses acquaintance with pastoral ambiance.
Childhood - “Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies”
Edna St. Vincent Millay elucidates, “Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age/The child is grown, and puts away childish things./Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.” These description conjectures that the children are unconscious of the bereavements around them for they are immature beings. The children start apprehending the deaths once they have outgrown their immaturity.
Summer - “I Know I Am But Summer To Your Heart”
The speaker acknowledges, “I know I am but summer to your heart,/And not the full four seasons of the year.” The speaker suspects that the lover considers her to be as transient as summer which despite being picturesque does not last the entire year. The metaphorical summer surmises that the speaker is expendable. If the speaker were to be analogous to the ‘full four seasons of the year,” then she would have been indispensable.
