With its off-rhymes and varied meters, each stanza moving from tetrameter to dimeter, the poem juxtaposes the season’s renewal with the distant, yet present, reality of the First World War.
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), an American lyric poet, was the author of nine volumes of poetry published between 1907 and the year of her death. Though her poems frequently appear in anthologies for children, their formal simplicity and their attention to the beauties of the natural world evince complex undertones of loneliness and lament. “Spring in War-Time,” with its off-rhymes and varied meters, each stanza moving from tetrameter to dimeter, juxtaposes the season’s renewal with the distant, yet present, reality of the First World War.
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