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Dusk in rustic poems1/13/2024 ![]() The moon that starts the poem off is an exotic weapon after all. I think Teasdale’s child is fantasizing some outside adventure and even risk of fantastic mayhem. Louisian Eliot had his Eugenides the merchant carry a pocketful of currants. And the Parlando Project Synchronicity Desk notes that fellow St. ![]() Most currant cake recipes show the kind of rustic cake that in my small-town Midwest was called “coffee cake,” but I’d guess it’d work for a tea party too. Currant cake seemed a specific choice that I thought might have meaning, but I found none in a short search. I may have overemphasized Teasdale’s compressed ending by not writing or playing much of a coda for the accompaniment. I’ll take the question unironically, though this poem made me smile. However, there are ways to read this blog that won’t show the player, and I also provide this highlighted link to click, which will allow those who don’t see the player to access the musical performance. You can hear Sara Teasdale’s “Dusk in Autumn” with a graphic audio player that many will see below. And here’s a link to the text of the poem if you’d like to read that.Īnother simple musical accompaniment here, this time just some acoustic guitar. I think Teasdale’s poem requires no further explanation, so I’ll just urge you to listen to it below. Eliot, but Eliot decamped for Harvard and then Europe - so as far as I’ve been able to find out, the two poets never met. ![]() Teasdale was roughly a contemporary in her childhood in St. ![]() Well, a child with a little taste for tea parties with witches, but still. This next poem in our Halloween series was written by a poet, Sara Teasdale, who wrote some complex adult love poems - but with this one she portrayed a child’s wonder. I risked taking the charm and playfulness out of Emily Dickinson’s ghost poem last time by trying to puzzle out exactly what she saw. ![]()
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