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Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's beauty, and death, and her poems were much loved during the early ), from that collection. Throughout her life, Teasdale suffered poor health and it was not until she was nine that she was judged healthy enough to begin school – a private school for children just one block away from her home. In 1898 she attended Mary Institute, and the following year she enrolled in Hosmer Hall, from which she graduated in 1903 . Her influences included the actress Duse , whom she never saw perform, the British poet Christina Rossetti , and numerous trips to Europe , beginning in 1905 . In 1913 , Teasdale was courted by two admirers. The poet Vachel Lindsay fell in love with her and at one point was sending her long, fantastic love letters on a daily basis. He asked her to marry him, but though she had deep feelings for Vachel, she instead married Ernst Filsinger, a businessman, in 1914 . The following year they moved to New York City , which became her home for the rest of her life. Teasdale and Lindsay remained fond but platonic friends throughout their lives, and Lindsay said that she was his life's "most inspiring, most satisfying friend." She was the inspiration for what Lindsay believed to be his greatest poem, The Chinese Nightingale . Teasdale 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. She was not happy in her marriage, and she divorced Filsinger in 1929 , against his wishes. Teasdale's health further declined. On the morning of January 29 , 1933 , in her New York City apartment, Teasdale took an overdose of sleeping pills, lay down in a warm bath, fell asleep, and never woke up again. Her last, and some say her finest, collection of verse, ''Strange Victory'', was published posthumously that same year. In 1994 Sara Teasdale was inducted into the St. Louis Walk Of Fame . She is interred in the Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. REFERENCES
EXTERNAL LINKS A Sample of Sara Teasdale Poems:''' Like Barley Bending A Winter Night Barter Dew I Shall Not Care Jewls The Crystal Gazer The Unchanging |
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