Commentary on Field of Autumn

Explain (tell me what image the poem brings to mind)She begins by describing the "death of winter's leaves".

This stanza ties in with the first stanza and lets the reader know it is the beautiful love between these two people that is dying on this cold winter day.

This poem brought me back to my home town and the wonders and beauty that it brings around winter time, and made me nostalgic with memories of past winters with my family and slightly saddened for those who have never seen the magical ability snow has. This poem reminded me that there are people who live in states where their change in seasons is not as noticeable, as the ones that I grew up with and have come to miss. Similar to many of the romantics, natures true beauty can transform the mundane into a work of art that would never have existed

Once more, the poet anticipates his own death when he composes this poem. But in each of these quatrains, the speaker fails to confront the full scope of his problem: winter, in fact, is a part of a cycle; winter follows spring, and spring returns after winter just as surely. Age, on the other hand, is not a cycle; youth will not come again for the speaker. In the third quatrain, the speaker resigns himself to this fact.]

The main season in the novel is the ’enemy’ of winter. Edith Wharton uses the climate to match the feelings of people in Starkfield, walking with a ’sluggish pulse’.

A great poem shocks us into another order of perception. It points beyond language to something still more essential. It ushers us into an experience so moving and true that we feel at ease. In bad or indifferent poetry, words are all there is. Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” is a great poem, not because it is popular or it is classic, but because of its underlining message. “Annabel Lee” is a poem of death, love, and beauty. It captures the narrator’s interpretation of these three ideas through his feelings and thoughts for one woman. The narrator, Edgar Allan Poe, becomes infatuated at a young age with the character in the poem, Annabel Lee. Even after she passes away, his love for her only increases and only becomes

In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis,” James Hurst exhibits the narrator's sorrow throughout Doodle's life and death by utilizing the literary elements of mood and foreshadowing. Hurst creates a dark, negative, and ominous mood that evokes the narrator's feeling of sorrow through specific diction . The author utilizes specific phrases to foreshadow certain events which reflect the narrator's feelings of sorrow. Hurst creates the mood through specific diction and phrases to exhibit the narrator's feeling of sorrow. In the beginning of the story, Hurst uses phrases to describe the time period as summer being “dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit the bleeding tree” (554)

“fall of the year they penetrated a weird lake country, sad and silent, where wildfowl had been, but where then there was no life nor sign of life—only the blowing of chill winds, the forming of ice in sheltered places, and the melancholy rippling of waves on lonely beaches.

In conjunction with the symbolic representation of Elisa’s life, the dramatic description of the environment can also be seen as a unique representation of the relationship conflict between husband and wife. Steinbeck’s foggy description demonstrates conflict through the following statement, "a time of quiet and waiting." This description is interesting because the fields are personified as waiting for rain, however, “rain and fog do not go together” therein lies the conflict just as Elisa waits for a positive change in how her husband treats her (Palmerino, Gregory J). Gregory P. further points out that, “The natural elements of the foothills ranch seem as unwilling to confront each other as the characters that inhabit its environs. Hence, fog and rain can be seen as the female and male equivalents to Elisa and Henry.” This only further solidifies the deep rooted troubles within Elisa and her relationship with her husband. The setting of the story is personified to act as a symbolic representation of the couple’s relationship (Steinbeck, John 337-338).

Poetry brings out all the different aspects of winter that are determined by using poetic devices the poets use in winter based poems. Using figurative language in a poem is able to make the reader feel as if they were there in the poem. In the following three poems, the main topic is the different feelings of winter, and how different species provide altering emotions within the poem itself. In the poem “The Cremation of Sam McGee” written by Robert Service, expressing the harshness of the winter by using poetic devices in the poem makes the reader feel the pain that is expressed the poem. In this poem the speaker Cap shares his freind Sam McGee’s story of the harsh winter weather he had to come across.

Although this poem also is connected with nature, the theme is more universal in that it could be related to Armageddon, or the end of the world. Even though this theme may seem simple, it is really complex because we do not know how Frost could possibly

Frost to save his son from his disease, to the inevitable death of the young boy in the poem.

“The Late Wisconsin Spring” is the tale of an omniscient narrator sharing how the Wisconsinites cope with their lengthy winter that blooms into a frigid spring. Through language that describes how nature “wither[s] and bloom[s]” (21), this poem gives the reader a front-row seat in experiencing the gradual awakening of the world. Phrases that depict that damage from the storm, weather changes, children playing, and gardening opportunities further share how difficult these two Wisconsin seasons are. The theme of death and rebirth after winter is familiar to everyone, even those in regions where snow is unlikely. Since Koethe lived in Wisconsin, he can express in detail how the scenery looks and how nature is reborn in spring. By illustrating the rise and fall, which corresponds to the death and rebirth, “The Late Wisconsin Spring” accurately depicts how the Wisconsinites hide from the cold and emerge during the slightly warmer weather.

Misty dew covers the entire surface of the field. The yellowing corn stalks stand erect and proud until my grandpas tractor comes to end their growth. Autumn slowly weaves its way in and leaves a stain of brilliant color in its wake. Not everyone enjoys such colors, but when you take a second to step outside your doorstep, and look at all the wonders that surround you, you’d be surprised at how marvelous the world can truly be. To me, Autumn is a time for relishing in the colors. Soaking in the oranges and reds while sitting by a warm fire. It’s a time for remembering that everything does end, but it does not have to end in the dreadful way we think it will. Autumn is a time for the closeness of others to keep out the chill of the morning and the starry-eyed darkness of the night.