Sara+Teasdale+Points+of+Analysis 

Sara Teasdale wrote poetry on women’s changing perspectives on things like beauty and love, and she used a lot of her own personal experiences to write her poems. A writer for the Harriet Poetry Foundation claims, “critics found much of Teasdale’s poetry to be unsophisticated but full of musical language and evocative emotion” (Harriet 1). Teasdale used this emotion to appeal to readers and utilized figurative language to make her writing relatable and imaginative. She used her life as the backbone of her poems, while her messages clearly went across. Teasdale wrote mainly for women, since her poetry was mainly about the troubles they faced. She assumes the audience can relate to what she talks about and has experienced some of the same things she has. In this sense, she seems to write her poetry in a way that is relatable to the reader and expects them to know what she is talking about. An example of this is in her poem, //A Winter Night//, where she compares her heart to the winter cold. She expects her audience to understand this feeling and relate to it. This helps her writing whenever someone does understand it, but otherwise the meaning could be lost on the reader. When Teasdale wrote her poetry, it was seen as sloppy to many critics. However, her way of writing and telling about women’s point of view spoke to a lot of readers. This technique makes the readers more apt to like Teasdale, since they see this new way of writing and what she writes about may relate to them in some way. Teasdale writing about these types if feelings makes the text surpass the time period it was written in; people will always deal with these types of things and will always be able to relate to what ideas Teasdale has and writes about. In Teasdale’s time, she was a mediocre poet. But, her themes have always been appealing to her audience, and so she was withstood time. In today’s culture, love and beauty are still in high debate, such as models and romance stories. Because her poems concern these topics often, they are still applicable to today’s times and therefore still have meaning for today’s readers. Her use of figurative language also makes the text interesting and easier for people to read, along with the use of what was then considered sloppy writing, because readers today still find it easy to read and understand.