I admit I don't have the most favorable associations with the name, but haven't read much of her at all. Or maybe I hadn't read anything until today: I have embarrassed myself to myself by thinking "Oh yeah, Sara Teasdale, that sappy line about the fainting robin." Then it occurred to me to check on that and...it's the universally-admitted-to-be-a-genius Dickinson. Oops.
I'm not really taken with this one, apart from the first two lines, but I went over to Poetry to read some others and found this sharp and extremely not-of-our time one, "To A Loose Woman":
I love, love Sara Teasdale. When it rains in spring I often launch into the first few stanzas of “There will come soft rains…” There is such an intensity to her poetry. Thank you for sharing this one. I have never dwelled on this particular poem so closely.
She's been a particular love of mine --- as Jody can attest! But really I like this whole generation of 1920s women poets: Elinor Wylie, for example, as well as (of course) Millay.
I admit I don't have the most favorable associations with the name, but haven't read much of her at all. Or maybe I hadn't read anything until today: I have embarrassed myself to myself by thinking "Oh yeah, Sara Teasdale, that sappy line about the fainting robin." Then it occurred to me to check on that and...it's the universally-admitted-to-be-a-genius Dickinson. Oops.
I'm not really taken with this one, apart from the first two lines, but I went over to Poetry to read some others and found this sharp and extremely not-of-our time one, "To A Loose Woman":
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=35827
I like that one on the same page, too, especially the last stanza.
I love, love Sara Teasdale. When it rains in spring I often launch into the first few stanzas of “There will come soft rains…” There is such an intensity to her poetry. Thank you for sharing this one. I have never dwelled on this particular poem so closely.
She's been a particular love of mine --- as Jody can attest! But really I like this whole generation of 1920s women poets: Elinor Wylie, for example, as well as (of course) Millay.