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 born from a decade of war and widespread disease, Teasdale
imagines a posthuman world where beauty and harmony continue
despite our disappearance: "Robins will wear their feathery fire /
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of
the war..." For Teasdale, a poet who merges an abiding affection
for flora and fauna with a critical distance from human affairs,
the belief in the life of the world, with or without us, is enough.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale's Flame and Shadow is a
classic work of American poetry reimagined for modern readers.
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