Faces Sara Teasdale Summary

"Faces", by Sara Teasdale, revolves around how a person perceives others when merely presented with one's face. Within the author's perspective, she regrets the judgments she immediately created of another person while worrying if others impose the same treatment on her. Teasdale incorporates metaphors, personifications, and end rhymes to convey her readers that people are too quick to internally condemn others. First of all, the usage of metaphors communicates the ludicrousness of people's negative evaluation of another's face. For example, Teasdale writes "your poor disguise" to compare the "poor disguise" to one's facial features. This correlation is meant to show that she truly believes this person's face to be unattractive. There is nothing morally incorrect to deem someone unattractive.

For instance, as the author consciously evaluates someone's face, she injects the phrase "secrets rushing without sound". This symbolizes the judgments that people create in their own mind from the instance they present themselves with one's physical appearance. In human nature, people do not immediately voice their opinions to the one they evaluate; consequently, since humans often keep their guilty judgment to themselves, the author imagines these criticisms as "secrets". Also, these secrets, as the writer phrases it to the one who she castigates, are "crying from your hiding places". There is no doubt that nearly everybody has something they desire to tweak from their outward appearance; consequently, they are self-conscious about it, and they make the effort to hide it. When a person notices their equivalent flaw, they devastatingly feel as if their own private place was invaded. Figuratively, these secrets that the author uncovered are shocked with grief by the unexpected invasion, and they are chastised. These secrets non-interchangeably become flaws and