I, Being born a Woman and Distressed

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay portrait

1892 to 1950

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How to Play Cloze Games

A cloze game is a reading comprehension activity where certain words are removed from a text and you need to fill in the blanks with the correct words. This helps improve vocabulary, reading comprehension, and understanding of context.

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Winning

When you fill all the blanks correctly, you'll see a congratulations message and confetti animation! The progress bar will show 100% completion.

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Missing Words

I, being born a woman and distressed 
By the needs and notions of my kind, 
Am by your propinquity to find 
Your person fair, feel a certain zest 
To bear your body’s upon my breast: 
So subtly is the fume life designed, 
To clarify the pulse and cloud mind, 
And leave me once again undone, possessed. 
Think not for this, however, the poor treason 
my stout blood against my staggering brain, 
I remember you with love, or season 
My scorn pity, —let me make it plain: 
I find frenzy insufficient reason 
For conversation when we meet again. 

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