Talk:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Her poem "The Way of the World" was first published in the February 25, 1883 issue of The New York Sun. The inspiration for the poem came as she was travelling to attend the Governor's inaugural ball in Madison, Wisconsin. On her way to the celebration, there was a young woman dressed in black sitting across the aisle from her. The woman was crying. Miss Wheeler sat next to her and sought to comfort her for the rest of the journey. When they arrived, the poet was so depressed that she could barely attend the scheduled festivities. As she looked at her own radiant face in the mirror, she suddenly recalled the sorrowful widow. It was at that moment that she wrote the opening lines of "Solitude":

I can't tell if this event was the inspiration for both poems or only Solitude. And the sources are applied in an unclear way so I'm not sure how to check. Thmazing (talk) 02:13, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Mizpah
I am not seeing Mizpah although it was staged and filmed. FloridaArmy (talk) 14:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * thanks for the note, I added it as a play. Feel free to add more detail about the film adaptation, but the cite you provided was about the play in 1906. --Engineerchange (talk) 15:17, 11 January 2024 (UTC)