This poem marked the start of modernist poetry in England. ‘Autumn’, written in 1908, establishes a delicate relationship between the ruddy moon, the red face of a farmer, and the time of year – autumn – through an unspoken connecting word, ‘harvest’.Įschewing rhyme and regular verse line lengths, and bringing the language of autumn poetry down to earth in the most literal sense, Hulme also manages to capture the wistful magic of the season of autumn. Hulme (1883-1917) favoured short, often unrhymed lyrics, and he was arguably the first modernist poet writing in English. (Though as Crapsey was an American poet we should probably describe ‘November Night’ as a great Fall poem.) A number of her cinquains touch upon autumnal themes, and ‘November Night’ is the finest of these. The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the treesĬrapsey (1878-1914) is not much remembered now, but she left one important poetic legacy: the cinquain, or five-line unrhymed stanza form, modelled on the Japanese haiku. Housman’s finest poem about nature, and a good example of how, whilst he has a reputation for indulging or even wallowing in the emotions, his work is shot through with a more pragmatic and unsentimental, even stoic, view of ‘man’s place in nature’.įollow the link above to read all of this wonderfully wistful and nostalgic poem. ‘Tell me not here, it needs not saying’ is probably A. Housman (1859-1936), who elsewhere wrote ‘I love no leafless land.’ Yet he wrote about leafless lands, and the sense of loss they convey, poignantly time and time again – and no better than here, in this poem from his 1922 volume Last Poems. Housman, ‘ Tell me not here, it needs not saying’.Īutumn was the season of choice for A. Follow the link above to read all of Rossetti’s poem.Ħ. Spoken by a woman who has chosen to ostracise herself from society and her friends – perhaps, as some critics have suggested, because she is a fallen woman – ‘From Sunset to Star Rise’ uses autumnal imagery and the disappearing summer to reflect on fallenness and sin as part of human nature. This sonnet is not one of the best-known poems by Christina Rossetti (1830-94), but it’s a real gem of a poem. Lest you with me should shiver on the wold, Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot,ĭwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not:Ī sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot. Christina Rossetti, ‘ From Sunset to Star Rise’. So Keats wrote in a letter of September 1819, hinting at the origins of ‘To Autumn’ and the circumstances of its composition, while Keats was living in Winchester, Hampshire, in southern England.įollow the link above to read the whole of Keats’s classic autumn poem, and learn more about these allusions.ĥ. This struck me so much in my Sunday’s walk that I composed upon it.’ Somehow, a stubble-field looks warm - in the same way that some pictures look warm. Really, without joking, chaste weather - Dian skies - I never liked stubble-fields so much as now - Aye better than the chilly green of the Spring. ‘How beautiful the season is now - How fine the air.
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