Romanticizing Death and Suicide in Sara Teasdale's Poetry

الملخص

Fascination with death was a lasting theme in poetry. For centuries death's inevitability, finality and mystery, captivate the imagination of many poets and elicit deep emotions. For some poets this fascination grew to be a romanticization not only of death but also of suicide due to many factors. The factors interpersonal difficulties and tragedies, psychiatric disorder, aging and the relentless search for peace, serenity, and immortality, prove to be critical.

     Women poets in particular are more attracted to death and suicide, some of them went even further as they chose the final act of self-destructing, suicide. The linage of suicide in American women poets began with Sara Teasdale. The poet romanticizes death early in her poetry as death castes its shadow over some of her poems. As she grew older, she became more depressed and a sadder person hence her poems became much darker, and heavy with weight of the premonition of death.

     This paper shed the light on Sara Teasdale's poetry that manifested her early fascination with death along with motivating factors that led to the rapid progress of this fascination to romanticization not only of death but of suicide that she turned to as her final resort.

https://doi.org/10.24897/acn.64.68.288