Barter By Sara Teasdale Poetic Devices

The theme of Sara Teasdale's poem, “barter”, is that everyone's happiness overcome the sorrows. It is True when the writer says “life has loveliness to sell.” The nature that surround us create many beautiful and splendid things from the most simple flower to the most glorious tree. The writer choose to put imagery into our minds and personification is used. Using this , the speaker might be trying to treat mother nature with more care, the care we would give another living person. This poem has an interesting rhyme scheme to it but it still acts the same way: ABCBDD. In the first line of the poem “Life has liveliness to sell” include not only one single poetic device, but three in total. In the first two stanzas it repeats, this is know as
repetition, euphony and alliteration. This can also be heard from that single phrase as well. In this poem similes are included; such as “Holding wonder like a cup” and “Music like a curve of gold.” Two opposites are used as well in the third and fourth lines of the poem: “Blue waves whitened on a cliff/soaring fire that sways and sings....”