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Edna St. Vincent Millay Sonnet: is this a FAKE [poem]??
This worksheet is from my daughter‘s honors 9th grade language arts class— it has a sonnet that purports to be one of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnets— XLI, to be exact.
BUT.
looking up that exact sonnet number by her yields a totally different poem result.
looking up exact phrases from this sample gives me NO Google search results. none.
IS THIS A FAKE? Did someone (I’m not accusing her teacher just yet… maybe they got it from a colleague or website?) use AI to generate a Millay-sounding sonnet?!? Or something like that?
Anyone want to add their insights, 2¢, etc…. Do their own digging?!?
I looked up her sonnets XL, XLII, XLIII (her most famous one I think?), and XLIV, just to see if maybe they cited a wrong number. But I’ve found nothing.
I‘m a former HS English teacher and this is stressing me out. 😅