Changes in climate can cause us to see classic poems in a new light. Case in point: Keats’s “To Autumn.”
Tag Archives: Seasons
A Dreamy Day and Tranquilly I Lie
Here’s a relaxing poem by “hoosier poet” James Whitcomb Riley to welcome in the summer.
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The End of Summer
As we look back at the summer that is coming to an end, did we lose ourselves in a time of innocence or did we worry that time was passing too fast? This Rachel Hadas poem suspects the second.
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Beholding the Summer Dead before Me
Shakespeare and Swinburne both write powerful poems about autumn.
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Walking Out in the Sun of October
As we enter October, revel in Dylan Thomas’ celebration of the season.
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The Violins of Autumn
I still remember memorizing, as a child in a French school, Paul Verlaine’s deliciously sad “Chanson d’automne.”
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Marianne’s Passion for Dead Leaves
In “Sense and Sensibility,” Austen gets us to reflect on the attractions and dangers of Nature.
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