Photograph by Gerhard Sisters. Public domain.
What Serany thinks about Sara Teasdale
Who they are
Sara Teasdale won the first Pulitzer Prize ever given for poetry, in 1918. She wrote short, plain, musical poems about love and dying, and died in New York in 1933 at forty-eight.
Why we'd read them at a funeral
She has two registers and they are opposites. One of hers tells whoever is leaning over the grave that she will not care; the other says spend everything you have on being alive and never count it.
Our favourite of theirs
Poems by Sara Teasdale
2 in all
Are you planning a funeral?
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