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[|Picture from poems.md] ||> == Bio ==
 * ==Sara Teasdale ==

**Sara Teasdale** was born on August 8, 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri. She caught diseases very easily so her mother hired a nurse to stay with her all the time. Sara was very spoiled and was the youngest child of four children (two brothers and a sister). She was homeschooled until age nine and then started attending Miss Ellen Dean Lockwood's School for Boys and Girls. At age fifteen, she wrote her first poem, "Reedy's Mirror", and it was later posted in a local newspaper.

Teasdale was an American lyrical poet and wrote many poems throughout her life. Her main ispiration was "pretty" things. Some of her main themes in her poems were love, beauty, comfort, and tragedy. Her poems were emotional and from the heart. They were based off of some of her experiences.

In 1914, Teasdale married Ernst Filsinger. She later divorced him in 1929. In 1933, Teasdale came down with a bad case of pneumonia. After catching it, Teasdale had no inspiration for her poems. She died on January 29, 1933 in New York, New York, by commiting suicide. She decided to commit suicide because she couldn't see the beauty in simple things. ||

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== Explication of "Advice to a Girl"   ==  [|Picture from Daily Paintings]

Sara Teasdale's poem [|Advice to a Girl] is a lesson that all girls (and boys) should learn sometime in their lifetime. In the poem, Sara writes "No one worth possessing can be quite possessed". This means that the things or people that you want the most in life are not able to be had or owned. Even if you put your all into a relationship with a great person, you can't own them.

When Sara says "lay it on your cheek, let it hide your tear" she is giving advice to someone finally realizing this. She is telling them not to cry when things don't go your way or when you don't get what you really want because it is reality that you can't possess someone.

Later in the poem, it says "And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed." This means if you take the time to look around and see how fortunate you are, you will see that the things you have are all you need. It is more important to have love than the own someone. You shouldn't let the fact that you can't own someone stop you from showing your love to them. Love isn't possible if one person tries to control the other person.

Sprague, Rosemary. __Imaginary Gardens.__ Ontario: Chilton Book Company, 1969.  __ Poem Hunter. __ 2008. 18 November 2008 .  Pinker, Steven. __Steven Pinker.__ 18 November 2008 <  http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"> >     <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="color: #b600ff; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Sources <span style="color: #b600ff; font-family: Georgia, serif;">     **

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Clayton, Justin. "Daily Paintings". 5 December 2008 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://dailypaintings.blogspot.com/2008/04/sketch-of-young-girl.html  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">>.