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“I found more joy in sorrow than you could
find in joy.”
This was one of many quotes said by Teasdale
that reflected her personality (“Sara Teasdale Quotes”,
Brainy Quotes). Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on
August 8th, 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri (“Sara
Teasdale”, Music). Her parents were Mary Elizabeth
Willard and John Warren Teasdale (“Sara Teasdale
Biography”, Famous Poets and Poems). She was a frail
little girl, the youngest of four children. She had two
older brothers, George and John, and one older sister,
Mary (. Teasdale was sheltered most of her life due to
the fact that she was often sick. Being she was sick so
often, she was around adults most of her life. Later on
she met her future husband, Ernst Filsinger; they
married in 1914. In 1916 Teasdale and her husband
moved to New York City to write her poetry. In the
beginning, they were happy and in love but the
marriage did not last. They decided to split in 1929.
From then on she completely devoted her life to poetry.
After four years, she caught pneumonia and slowly
recovered. After the suicide of a friend and her illness,
Teasdale became severely depressed and began to
think she had nothing to live for. She committed
suicide on January 29, 1933. People will forever
remember Teasdale’s deep and passionate literature.
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Teasdale attended many schools and won
many awards for her literature achievements. After
being homeschooled until the age of nine, Teasdale
went to Miss Ellen Dean Lockwood’s school for boys
and girls for one year; she would later switch to
Mary Institute. After those schools she went to
Hosmer Hall (“Sara Teasdale Biography”, Famous
Poets and Poems). It was there Teasdale began to
put her ideas and dreams into poems. Since she was
often around adults or sick, she had a big
imagination and she used those elements in her
writing. She wrote her first poem when she was
fifteen but did not publish her works till she was 23.
Teasdale had two individuals who influenced her,
they were the actress Eleanora Duse and the British
poet Christina Rossetti (“Sara Teasdale”, Enotes).
Over the years Teasdale won many awards for her
literature works. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Love
Songs in 1917. She also was awarded the Columbia
University Poetry Society Prize in 1918.
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Teasdale had a natural ability to
write poems that expressed who she was. She
chose to write about beauty and love because
she had experienced it. In order to express
those emotions she used similes, rhyming,
repetitions, and opposites (“Analysis: Barter”,
Tripod). Her work was very popular in her time
because every woman dreamed of what it
would be like to fall in love. She showed an
undying and accurate understanding of
human emotion and that is why her work was
and still is so popular. She wrote of being in
love and having your heart broken. Teasdale
impacted the literature world with her words
of warmth and passion within her poems.
Teasdale’s poems are still well known because
all contain one thing, emotion. Sara Teasdale
impacted modern poetry with her deep and
passionate words within her literature and for
that she is remembered.
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“After Love”
“April Song”
“Barter”
“Change”
“Compensation”
“Debt”
“Dream Song”
“Driftwood”
“Embers”
“Fear”
“Four Winds”
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“I Shall Not Care”
“I Am Not Yours”
“In The End”
“Love Songs”
“Nightfall”
“Spring Rain”
“Snowfall”
“The Nights Remember”
“There Will Come Soft Rains”
“Tonight”
“Winter Stars”
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This poem is about wanting
things to change and
knowing they won’t. I chose
this poem because I related
to it as soon as I read the
line, “A thirsty body, a tired
heart/ And the unchanging
ache of things”. The world is
always moving at a fast
pace and when your life
feels unmovable, like it’s
going nowhere. This poem
means something to me
because there have been
many times in my life where
I have felt stationary and
boring. This is a poem
everyone should read
because it is somehow
relatable to everyone’s lives
in this high-speed world we
live in.
I should be glad of
loneliness
And hours that go on
broken wings,
A thirsty body, a tired
heart
And the unchanging
ache of things,
If I could make a single
song
As lovely and as full of
light,
As hushed and brief as a
falling star
On a winter night.
After Love
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This poem is about losing
something, someone to be exact. I
chose this poem because I feel people
including myself can relate to it.
“You work no miracle for me/ Nor I
for you”, this quote stuck out to me
because it describes how one feels
after something good has ended.
Everyone knows what it feels like to
lose someone so important to you. By
lose I mean break up or leave not
lose by death or fatality. This poem
has meaning for me because I know
what it feels like when things aren’t
the same between two people
anymore. I know how much it can
hurt when someone completely drops
out of your life or you become nonexistent. The point is, this poem is
relatable in a sense that everyone
loses something important and it
takes real strength to rise up and
live your life again.
There is no magic any more,
We meet as other people do,
You work no miracle for me
Nor I for you.
You were the wind and I the sea -There is no splendor any more,
I have grown listless as the pool
Beside the shore.
But though the pool is safe from
storm
And from the tide has found
surcease,
It grows more bitter than the sea,
For all its peace.
There Will Come Soft Rain
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There will come soft rains and the smell of
the ground,
And swallows circling with their
shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
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Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
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And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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“There will come soft rains,” Sara Teasdale displays
imagery in a way that forces you to absorb the
intricate words. This poem is about nature’s awareness
of humanity. Teasdale paints a picture with her
descriptive words of nature’s beauty and the
disappearance of humanity. "Not one would mind,
neither bird nor tree/ If mankind perished utterly; /
And spring herself, when she woke at dawn/ Would
scarcely know that we were gone.” This quote represents
the idea of humans disappearing and nature moving
on; of nature forgetting and pushing forward into the
future. “And frogs in the pools singing at night, / And
wild plum trees in tremulous white”. This quote
expresses the beauty Teasdale found in nature to an
extent where one can picture the images in their head.
This also provides a description of how simple the
beauty of nature is. Sara Teasdale uses imagery in this
poem when she vividly describes the characteristics of
nature. Using imagery to describe and represent the
symbols in this poem makes it much more vivid and
real. The effect of imagery on this poem is prominent
and very important because words would just be words
not feelings and emotions. Sara Teasdale causes one to
ponder nature without humanity, to display how
simple the world would be without humans, and to
remind all of how beautiful and wonderful nature is.
Barter
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Life had a loveliness to sell
All beautiful and splendid things
Blue waves whitened on a cliff
Soaring fire that sways and swings
And children’s faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup
Life has a loveliness to sell
Music like the curve of gold
Scent of pine trees in the rain
Eyes that love you, arms that hold
And for your spirits still delight
Holy thoughts that star the night
Spend all you have for loveliness
Buy it and never count the cost
For one while singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be
Remember: Inspired by Barter
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There is wondrous beauty
Yet a being full of sadness and regret
Though there is beauty there is rage
To look through innocent eyes
To see such beauty in a worldly state
Life offers countless excitements
Music that makes you press repeat 100
times
To breathe the air after a rain shower
To have someone to love, someone to care
To have hope for a future
And dreams of better days
To be blinded from the truth
To forget those who struggle
To ignore the ignored
To worship the worshiped
Do not forget who they are
Do not forget who you are
I Am Not Yours
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I am not yours, not lost in you
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon
Lost as a snowflake in the sea
You love me and I find you
still
A spirit beautiful and bright
Yet I am, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light
Oh plunge me deep in love-put
out
My senses, leave me deaf and
blind
Swept by the tempest of your
love
A taper in a rushing wind
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I wish I was something to you
But to be something is harder
than nothing
I am but another person to
strangers
I am one face in a sea of a
thousand
It is in you I find my real purpose
You shine so brightly it
illuminates my soul
Still I hide, too scared to be me
But who am I? I’m lost in myself
It is time to break free of my
shame
Forget regret
Now I am free of what I used to be
Finally I am someone
Stationary
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Nothing seems real anymore
Black and white have turned to
grey
My nerves have gone astray
My heart keeps beating
My soul keeps on living
But my life is in a stationary state
I want to escape the darkness into
light
Into your arms
I will take flight
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You lived your life to the fullest
Loved with all your might
Cared with all your heart
And smiled like the sun
I will always remember
Fishing off the dock on a summer evening
Granny’s ice cream on a scorching hot day
Going to the Underwood Park and climbing
in the huge bird house
All of our laughs
All of our tears
All of our memories
I remember them
I never would have imagined
How much it would hurt to see you go
I know your suffering is over
And for that I am thankful
But everything is so hard without you here
I hope you’re as proud of me as I am of you
I miss you and love you Grandma
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