Sara Teasdale's Poem 'Spring In War-Time'

The poem I chose was Spring in War-Time by Sara Teasdale. This was a poem from World WarⅠin 1915. The overall theme of this poem is that, how can happiness fill up hearts while dealing with grief? The grief would be the death of the soldiers who died in battle. Teasdale is trying to make us realize that dealing with a death is hard even when good things are heading our direction. Love is the strongest thing in the world and when one half of it’s gone you start to doubt in it. “Oh, how can spring take heart to come To a world in grief, Deep grief?” (s.1) The question being asked in that statement is, how can happiness fill up hearts while dealing with grief? Teasdale asked questions after every stanza to question people's feelings and to make them realize the hard times that the women were going through. “How can the daylight linger on For men to fight, Still fight?” (s.2) This is asking that why are the days so long maybe it's for the soldiers to keep on fighting? “How can it have the heart to sway Over the graves, New graves?” (p.3) This part of the poem is asking why people put graves over graves after the grass has grown long. “But what of all the lovers now Parted by Death, Grey Death?” (p.4) This is saying that hearts have been broken because of the death of their …show more content…
This is because Teasdale was trying to flip the poem over. Instead of telling the readers how she felt she wanted people to feel how many felt in the 1915’s. Especially when she asked “Under the boughs where lovers walked The apple-blooms will shed their breath- But what what of all the lovers now Parted by Death, Grey Death? (s.4) The tone of this story is sad. This is because Sara teasdale is explaining what she has been through in her life. She explains her sorrow in the first stanza. “ I feel the spring far off, far off, The faint, far scent of bud and leaf- Oh how can spring take heart to come To a world in grief, Deep