1930. Teasdale's work has always been characterized by its simplicity and clarity, her use of classical forms, and her passionate and romantic subject matter. In 1918, she won the Columbia University Poetry Society Prize (which became the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and the Poetry Society of America Prize for Love Songs. She later committed suicide. Her collection of poems, Dark of the Moon, is considered one of her major works. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Dark but lovely "Moon",
This review is from: Dark of the Moon (Paperback)
In the early twentieth-century, Sara Teasdale was something of an oddity: A poet who wrote like a Victorian, but who hadn't been eclipsed by free verse. In her sixth volume, Teasdale had smoothed out some of the flaws from her verse, but the tone is still romantic, wistful and ethereal.
The main theme of Teasdale's poetry is: love. The majority of her life's work centered on romance, even if it was restricted only to one adoring line per poem. She name-drops Deirdre, Helen, and especially Iseult as "those that love the most," and focuses on unnamed lovers whom she worships completely. All is not the same, though -- the passion and intensity of her earlier poems have waned in favor of a quieter romantic sense, since Teasdale was increasingly disappointed in love. Quite a few of the poems are more introspective, musing on what would happen if she gave up poetry, or contemplations of nature and its beauty. One poem near the end of the book is poignantly ironic, where Teasdale announces that "I shall live to be old, who feared I should die young." Since she committed suicide only seven years later, the final line ("... to envy sometimes the way of the early dead") seems sadder and more prophetic, as does her ponderings on a statue of a deceased nun. Not to mention that most legendary lovers she mentions met an untimely end. At the same time, Teasdale's poetry has become less like a lovestruck teenager's, and more like a mature, sorrowful woman. There's an autumnal quality to "Dark of the Moon," with its references to falling leaves, empty beaches and "the great rain of moonlight pouring down." She also relied less on rhyme and meter, and focused more on words. The idealistic romance and lyrical beauty that Teasdale did are alive in "Dark of the Moon," though the passion had definitely waned. Still, the autumnal beauty of her poetry is all the more striking.
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Haunting Poetry,
By Sparroweye "Anne" (Palaka, Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark of the Moon (Paperback)
I first bought this book many years ago. Her poetry is haunting and filled with images of the sea and nature. I especially loved
"The Flight" about two eagles who when one died, the other followed. Such a beautiful poet to die so young. "Appraisal" was also another of my favorites in this book. I wonder why I have heard of Plath and e.e cummings but had never heard of Teasdale.
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