Eight O'Clock
Sara Teasdale, “Eight O'Clock” from Flame and Shadow (New York: Macmillan, 1924). Copyright 1924 by Sara Teasdale. Reprinted with the permission of the Office for Resources, Wellesley College.
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Poet Sara Teasdale 1884–1933
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Time & Brevity, Relationships, Living, Love, Classic Love, Desire, Infatuation & Crushes
Poetic Terms Common Measure, Rhymed Stanza
Biography
Sara Teasdale received public admiration for her well-crafted lyrical poetry which centered on a woman's changing perspectives on beauty, love, and death. Many of Teasdale's poems chart developments in her own life, from her experiences as a sheltered young woman in St. Louis, to those as a successful yet increasingly uneasy writer in New York City, to a depressed and disillusioned person who would commit suicide in 1933. . . .
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SUBJECT Time & Brevity, Relationships, Living, Love, Classic Love, Desire, Infatuation & Crushes
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Common Measure, Rhymed Stanza
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