Teasdale and Dickinson’s poems share the theme that desire of something is strongest before one actually obtains the object of their desire. Teasdale uses flashbacks to develop the theme, but Dickinson uses metaphors. In both poems, someone once wants something and greatly desires it. Once they receive it, it is not as desirable or important as it was before. Both authors lead up to the theme with the metaphors and the flashbacks. Teasdale uses flashbacks to share the theme that desire of something is strongest before one actually obtains the object of their desire. In the poem, a man has a flashback to his boyhood. It showed what he once desired, but now does not desire. Flashbacks show desire, because it proves how one can once want something,
