Sara Teasdale carefully selected specific words in her poem “The Fight” in order to get the emotional response she wanted to receive from the reader. In choosing such words, she relied heavily on associations that people subconsciously associate with the individual word as well as the multiple meanings which some words carry with them. It is this careful selection of words that gives the poem deeper meaning and makes it truly enjoyable. In the first …showed first 75 words of 705 total…

…showed last 75 words of 705 total…this, she was able to take advantage of various feelings associated with certain words, which she either chose to, or not to include. Another very effective writing tool she used was including words that can mean two different things, depending how it was interpreted. These writing tools combined with the pure emotion that she put into “The Flight” made it a very deep and meaningful poem, exactly as she intended it to be. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**