Tag Archives: Seasons

Will Warm Days Never Cease?

Changes in climate can cause us to see classic poems in a new light. Case in point: Keats’s “To Autumn.”

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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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Death Seems Comely at the Fall of the Leaf

The lure of many autumn poems lies in how they focus on a vanishing beauty. Dante Gabriel Rossetti finds death to be “a comely thing/In Autumn at the fall of the leaf.”

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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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The Explosion of Summer

A Paul Laurence Dunbar poem to usher us into the summer. It begins with breathless waiting–and then everything explodes.

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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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