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• work leads to morę work, traffic between death and life, absence and presence, language and reality,

"The Span of Life"

The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remem ber when he was a pup.

•    a brief, laconlc, unsublime piece,

•    old dog lies on the floor and barks, but you see him as a puppy in your mind eye, imaginative reach into the world, we make meaning, make the world,

•    the pulse of poetry: perform the labour that turns language Into meaning, old age into memory of youth, death into life.

SARA TEASDALE (1884 - 1933)

Life:

•    Sara Teasdale was born in St. Louis (Missouri),

•    she graduated from a private school,

•    she turned Europę and the Middle East from 1905 to 1907 to enlarge her experience,

•    as she became morę involved in writing and morę cynical about the post-World War I conditions, she became morę solitary and withdrawn,

•    her personal life was unhappy, her marriage failed, she spent most of her life In frail health.

Style:

•    her flrst volume of poetry, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems (1907), established her literary reputation,

•    in 1918, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her Love Poems,

•    her poetry was straightforward and marked by technical excellence,

•    it Is lyrlc poetry - short musical verse relating to the poet's thoughts or feelings.

"The Solitary"

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892 - 1950)

Life: