I shall bury my weary Love
Beneath a tree,
In the forest tall and black
Where none can see.
I shall put no flowers at his head,
Nor stone at his feet,
For the mouth I loved so much
Was bittersweet.
I shall go no more to his grave,
For the woods are cold.
I shall gather as much of joy
As my hands can hold.
I shall stay all day in the sun
Where the wide winds blow,
But oh, I shall weep at night
When none will know.
Beneath a tree,
In the forest tall and black
Where none can see.
I shall put no flowers at his head,
Nor stone at his feet,
For the mouth I loved so much
Was bittersweet.
I shall go no more to his grave,
For the woods are cold.
I shall gather as much of joy
As my hands can hold.
I shall stay all day in the sun
Where the wide winds blow,
But oh, I shall weep at night
When none will know.
The bittersweet feeling of loss will forever be a burden on someone, someone like Sara Teasdale. In her poem Buried Love, Teasdale talks of a lover that is no longer hers, a lover that will never return.
Walking alone, through a cold and dark forest is the sorrowful beginning of Sara Teasdale's Buried Love. Teasdale's poem tells of a story where one loses their lover and goes to their lonely grave to finally detach from them once and for all. She will seem strong within the day for others to assume that she is no longer in love, but she will "weep at night / When none will know." proving that she in fact is still in love with the lost lover regardless of their absence. The strength that she had in the poem to hold her tears in front of other is merely a façade of the loneliness and sorrow that she has been experiencing all by herself. The lonely, eerie, and saddening tone gracefully portrays Teasdale's grief.
Flowers to portray a love that has been lost, cold and lonely woods to portray the cold and lonely sadness that she is experiencing, and her empty hands which need to "gather as much of joy" portrays her empty heart, with nobody to fill it with their love are all symbols that Teasdale uses to strengthen her words in the short poem. This gives the poem more depth than what would naturally meet the eye and this would also push the reader to understanding the poem outside of what is only written.
Buried Love gives grief, sorrow, and strength a different meaning. As short as the poem may be or as subtle as the words may seem, the poem is meaningful and powerful and gives the reader only a small understanding of what pain is like when loss is apparent.
Walking alone, through a cold and dark forest is the sorrowful beginning of Sara Teasdale's Buried Love. Teasdale's poem tells of a story where one loses their lover and goes to their lonely grave to finally detach from them once and for all. She will seem strong within the day for others to assume that she is no longer in love, but she will "weep at night / When none will know." proving that she in fact is still in love with the lost lover regardless of their absence. The strength that she had in the poem to hold her tears in front of other is merely a façade of the loneliness and sorrow that she has been experiencing all by herself. The lonely, eerie, and saddening tone gracefully portrays Teasdale's grief.
Flowers to portray a love that has been lost, cold and lonely woods to portray the cold and lonely sadness that she is experiencing, and her empty hands which need to "gather as much of joy" portrays her empty heart, with nobody to fill it with their love are all symbols that Teasdale uses to strengthen her words in the short poem. This gives the poem more depth than what would naturally meet the eye and this would also push the reader to understanding the poem outside of what is only written.
Buried Love gives grief, sorrow, and strength a different meaning. As short as the poem may be or as subtle as the words may seem, the poem is meaningful and powerful and gives the reader only a small understanding of what pain is like when loss is apparent.