Sarah Teasdale was an American lyrical poet. Her major themes in poetry were nature’s beauty, love and death. Her poems were very much loved during the 20th century.
Since her marriage with Ernst was not happy and they departed, it was loneliness that totally engulfed her and that has been reflected in her poems also.
She has won the Colombia University Poetry Society Prize in 1918 and for her volume on Love songs; she has won the annual prize of Poetry Society of America. Her first poem was published in 1907 with a local newspaper and her first collection of poems was also published in the same year.
“I Thought of You” is a poem in which she tries to put her feelings of loneliness and the regret of not choosing her first love proposal. She was total loner in her marriage and in those years is when she realizes; how she missed her first love. By the time she found him, he was already settled with his family.
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Even though this is a small poem, she has put in words that describe her loneliness. The first stanza shows that she thought about her lover, during her loneliness and how she missed those days when they were at sight of each other. She has expressed her feel as waves breaking through the sound of thunder.
In the second stanza, she says that, in those days she could feel the echo of her long lost beautiful days that kept haunting her, which is now beyond her or in fact is irreversible. And when she walks through the dark night at the sea, it brings back all those memories to her.
The last two lines could be understood in two ways. One context could be with her love, that through death they shall go together after ages, shall reunite and until then they may have to wait to hear each other and the beautiful sound of the waves together.
Or it could be interrupted as since her husband had never spent time with her, death would depart them for ages and time will have to cycle again till they get together and hear together.
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This poet depicts all the loneliness that Sarah had felt in her life and how she missed all those dear to her.
A poem beautifully expressed, yet made complicated with the thoughts put in contrasting style of words.