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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD WOMEN, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He meets her twice or thrice a year Last Line: A saint, a sinner, or a fool. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Women | |||
He meets her twice or thrice a year, Sometimes less and sometimes more, Each time they meet the stage is set Exactly as the time before. He is most glossy and most gay, Witty, omniscient, and bland, She is inscrutable and mild, She lets him play his hand. And if his pyrotechnics pale A little on her moonlit sky He scarcely knows that it is so, And only vaguely wonders why. And if he finds her eyes too wide, A shade too deep, a shade too cool, She lets him wonder which she is, A saint, a sinner, or a fool. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV |
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