Sara+Teasdale+Literary+Effects

// A Winter Night //
"The moon is cruel" "God pity all the" "My room is like a bit of June"
 * Personification
 * Is seen in third line, and is used to describe how cold and bad the night is. Teasdale uses this personification to illustrate how no one would want to go out into that night.
 * repetition
 * Teasdale uses this to describe how unfortunate the people she is talking about are
 * simile
 * is found in the ninth line, and is used to illustrate to the reader how the safety of her room compares to the outside world. It can also be used to show how in her known environment she feels safe.

//After Love//
"You were the wind and I the sea" "I have grown listless as the pool" "It grows more bitter than the sea"
 * metaphor
 * is used to compare her and her lover's personalities and feelings. Saying that he is the wind and her the sea also demonstrates how they were with each other. He caused her to have waves, or get upset or sad about things.
 * simile
 * Teasdale uses this to demonstrate her emotions and how restless she has grown.
 * personification
 * showing hor after time she is growing more and more bitter and sad.

//**May Day**//
"Red small leaves of the maple Are clenched like a hand" "Like girls at their first communion" "Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much" The first 2 stanzas have repetition in their structure
 * personification
 * Teasdale says this to give the reader the image of curling leaves in autumn
 * simile
 * used to give the reader an image of tall, straight pear trees
 * hyperbole
 * saying that she loves everything in the world, no matter what. She uses the hyperbole to stress this but this is an exaggeration
 * is used to make poem flow and sound pleasing

personification: giving something non-human human qualities simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as metaphor: comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other Hyperbole: a great exaggeration