• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1920s) — an American poet and considered as one of America's most widely read and most beloved poets. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923.
Love is Not All — A Sonnet written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
➢ Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink,” affirms the fact that love cannot fulfill our basic human needs, yet it has an undefinable power.
• Alliteration — when words that start with the same sound, especially those of consonant sounds, are placed close together in a phrase or a line.
Examples: "pinned down by pain," "lack of love."
• Repetition — a technique used by a poet to get a reader's attention to a certain idea or whatever it is that the poet wishes to share.
Example: "Nor a slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again"
• Imagery — mental image, figure, or likeness of things produced by the words used by the poet.
Examples: "a roof against the rain" , "fill the thickened lung with breath"
• A Rose for Emily — It is the first short story of Faulkner to be published in a national magazine.
• Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional country in Jefferson, Mississippi - like most of Faulkner's works, this short story is also set in _. It is created by Faulkner himself.
• A Rose for Emily — A Short Story written by the American author, William Faulkner. It is about a quiet aristocratic woman (Emily) and the unveiling of her deepest secret.
Emily Grierson – the mysterious old woman.
2. Homer Barron – who mysteriously disappeared.
3. Tobe – the black servant of Emily.
4. Judge Stevens – the mayor who was hesitant to confront Emily about the stench.
5. Colonel Sartoris – the previous mayor, dead for almost ten years, who remitted her taxes due to Mr. Grierson’s loans to the town.
6. The four men – broke into Emily’s house and sprayed lime to extinguish the foul smell.
• Gothic fiction — a literary genre that began in the late eighteenth century with distinctive characteristics from other genre.
• Southern gothic fiction — refers to the subgenre of gothic fiction in American literature that takes place in the South America.
• Dark Humor — southern Gothic features _ in the stories.
• Exposing the problems of society through the development of complexcharacters — southern Gothic follows the idea of _
• Susan Glaspell — a journalist. Her stories appeared in different literary magazines such as Harper's and The Ladies' Home Journal.
• July 1, 1876 — when was Susan Glaspell born.
• Davenport, Iowa — where was Susan Glaspell born.
• Des Moines Daily News - where Susan Glaspell worked for as a journalist.
• Feminist writer — Glaspell is considered a _ on account of her works that deal with idealistic tales of strong and independent female protagonists.
• Trifles, 1916 — a play by Susan Glaspell. It was also published as a short story entitled "A Jury of Her Peers."
Trifles — A Play by Susan Glaspell
Setting of the play: Farm house
Minnie Wright - The wife and suspected killer of the murdered John Wright. The abused wife who killed her husband due to the lost/death of the bird.
2. John Wright - Minnie’s deceased husband, found strangled in his bed the day before the play begins. Abusive male who owned the farmhouse.
3. Mrs. Hale - The wife of Lewis Hale and neighbor to the Wrights. She is the one who found the fancy box.
4. Mrs. Peters - The Sheriff's wife, who is tasked with retrieving a few of Minnie’s belongings from the farmhouse. The one who noticed the bird cage with no bird.
5. County Attorney (George Henderson) - The man in charge of the investigation.
6. The Sheriff (Henry Peters) - The local lawman and husband of Mrs. Peters who arrested Minnie Wright.
7. LewisHale - The neighboring farmer who discovered the murder.
• Quilt - to sew the layers
• Work of art — any ___, especially in literature, is considered as an artifact of a specific place in a particular time.
• Scholars — for some ___, it is a reflection of thoughts, aspirations, imagination, and psyche of a society. Hence, it is a product of an amalgation of insights of the milieu.
• United States — has been marked by two world wars during Susan Glaspell's time. It was also the onset of the economic boom that provided more jobs to American women.
• Female authors — they produced literary works that deal with gender roles and power relationships between men and women.
• Susan Glaspell’s Trifles — is considered as a voice of the author's historical context during the time it was written.