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New Moon

Author's Analysis

Loss of Love

Sara Teasdale

Many of Ms Teasdale's poems focus on the loss of love

Sara Teasdale was born into a wealthy, devout family. She suffered poor health and it was not until she was nine that she was judged healthy enough to begin school.

Sara was very much a product of her Victorian upbringing, and she was never able to experience in life the passion that she expressed in her poetry ” (American Poems)

Reasons for the focus of loss of love and pain

Her health declined over much of her life

Sara loved poet Vachel Lindsay, he expressed undying love, however she declined his proposal and married a wealthy businessman. She regretted this, and after her divorce befriended Lindsay until his suicide.

Teasdale committed suicide in 1933 in an overdose, after being depressed for many years, people now believing she was manic

Day, you have bruised and beaten me,

As rain beats down the bright, proud sea,

Beaten my body, bruised my soul,

Left me nothing lovely or whole --

Yet I have wrested a gift from you,

Day that dies in dusky blue:

For suddenly over the factories

I saw a moon in the cloudy seas --

A wisp of beauty all alone

In a world as hard and gray as stone --

Oh who could be bitter and want to die

When a maiden moon wakes up in the sky?

Interviewee's Perspectives Likeness and Differences

Sara Teasdale

Question 1 What do you think the meaning of the poem is?

"That there is always beauty, even in darkness."

Interviewee #1:

Damion

20

High school graduate

High IQ

Gamer

Question 1 What do you think the meaning of the poem is?

"To make people question why anyone would want to die when there are such small beauties in the world."

Interviewee #2

Austin

18

GED Educated

Work-A-Holic

Father

Lives through humor

Question 3 What was your gut reaction?

"Gut reaction to the poem is that it's overall negative because the author felt beaten down by something in their life, and their poem was a way to outlet it. The poem is strong and is open to interpretation for all."

Question 1 What do you think the meaning is?

" Literally: It's sort of a diamond in the rough type deal. Even in the worst of times,there's always something positive and bright waiting

Figuratively:There's always a positive even in the darkest of times."

Question 2 What does this poem remind you of?

"It reminds me of some from the 1800s standing on a balcony in a city looking at the moon."

Question 2 What does the poem remind you of? Any personal life events?

"Even in a time I thought I was happy with my ex, I was really being beaten down, and when I thought there would only be darkness I found someone."

Question 3 What was your gut reaction?

"It made me cry, it touched me really deeply."

Interviewee #3

Kristen

High School Student

Old School Gamer

Question 2 What does this poem remind you of?

" Reminds me of a quote from Albus Dumbledore, "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." From personal experience, I think of how even though schoolwork stresses me out, my good grades lead to a bright future.

Question 3 What was your gut reaction to the poem?

"I instantly believed in it's moral meaning."

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