![]() ![]() ![]() Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,- While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn Hedge-crickets sing and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. His words depict the haunting beauty in the quiet winding down into winter. Keats ends his poem evoking the closing of the season and finding a parallel in the beauty of an early-evening sunset. The poem is a rich description of the beauty of autumn that focuses on both its lush and sensual fruitfulness and the melancholy hint of shorter days. Image courtesy danist soh via unsplash.John Keats' 1820 ode to the fall season is one of the great classics of the poetic movement of Romanticism. Each leaf falls as if it were motioning no. In this poem, Keats uses personification and sensuous imagery to convey the idea that the season of fall is just as beautiful as the season of spring, even though its beauty is different and. Autumn, by Rainer Maria Rilke The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Keats ends his poem evoking the closing of the season and finding a parallel in the beauty of an early-evening sunset. Winds of Autumn, by Saigyo Even in a person most times indifferent to things around him they waken feelings the first winds of autumn. ![]() Please be sure to visit Donna Smith at Mainely Write for the Poetry Friday Roundup. The poem is a rich description of the beauty of autumn that focuses on both its lush and sensual fruitfulness and the melancholy hint of shorter days. I don’t remember where I first read Siv Cedering’s lovely “When it is Snowing,” but it immediately came to mind after reading “Winter Scene.” The last red berries hang from the thorn-tree, The last red leaves fall to the ground. A blue jay in our apple tree last winter. The rusty leaves crunch and crackle, Blue haze hangs from the dimmed sky, The fields are matted with sun-tanned stalks. In addition to lots of good advice, he includes plenty of poetry as examples of how “poems freshen the world,” including this beauty from A.R. With leaves turning golden, nights drawing in and fires being lit, autumn is the perfect time to settle down in a comfy chair with some poetry for company. Comment from author about the poem: I have not experienced autumn, but we have a windy season here in Kerala, in November, December. Poet Laureate from 2004-2006, offers exactly that in his plain-spoken, straightforward style. 14 minute to read Twelve autumn poems A selection of our favourite poems on autumn, the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'. The poet tries to tells us that autumn comes every year butcovers his tracks to the point where it will look like he was never there. ![]() I’ve been participating in Laura Shovan‘s Found Object Poetry Project this month, and in addition to drafting a poem every day, I’ve been reading Ted Kooser‘s The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets (University of Nebraska Press: 2005). Unseen poetry The poet describes autumn as an experienced robber, he says this because autumn comes every year sothat’s why it’s so experienced in doing what he does every year. ![]()
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