Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale PAPERBACK 9781513298641

Name: Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale PAPERBACK 9781513298641
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Flame and Shadow (1920) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet's fifth collection, published two years after she won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, death, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Flame and Shadow revels in the mystery of existence itself. \""What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, / That my songs do not show me at all?\"" Content to depict the rhythms of nature, the songs of birds, and \""the silver light after a storm,\"" Teasdale's poetry dissolves the poet's ego in order to access a deeper well of creative energy: \""For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, / It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.\"" In \""There Will Come Soft Rains,\"" a poem\n\nFlame and Shadow\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note: the price advertised is as lo;