By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Autumn is at once symbolic of plenty, ripening, harvest, and abundance; and, at the same time, a symbol of decay, decline, old age, and even death, with associations of things being past their prime. To understand this we need to look at how writers […]
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A Short Analysis of John Clare’s ‘Autumn’
John Clare (1793-1864) is often overlooked in accounts of Romantic poetry, but he wrote sensitively and originally about the English countryside and his poetry displays a fine eye for local detail. He is regarded by some as the finest nature poet in the English language. His poem ‘Autumn’ showcases his […]
10 Classic Autumn Poems Everyone Should Read
The best poems about Fall (or autumn) selected by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘Now the leaves are falling fast’: so begins W. H. Auden’s ‘Autumn Song’, which features below in this compilation of ten of the best autumn poems in all of English literature. The following classic autumnal poems (or, to […]
A Short Analysis of T. E. Hulme’s ‘Autumn’
Dr Oliver Tearle’s summary of a classic modernist poem ‘Autumn’ by T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) is arguably the first modern poem in the English language. Written in 1908, it shows something different from the poetry being written by the Georgian poets such as Rupert Brooke and John Drinkwater, or the […]