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    Cards (13)

    • 'seasons of mists and fellow fruitfulness'
      autumn is a season of change, but despite this, it's a calm season
    • 'fruit the vines'
      semantic field of nature and abundance, autumn is a time for plenty
    • 'plump the hazel shells'
      connotations of fertility and reproduction
    • 'for the summer has overbrimmed'
      after autumn, death comes with winter and changing seasons
    • 'careless on a granary floor'
      personifying autumn shows autumn is careless in the change it brings
    • 'drowsed with the fume of poppies'
      intoxication, shows how humans misuse nature
    • 'last oozings hours by hours'
      implies that autumn acts as if it has all the time in the world, but time is still passing by
    • 'where are the songs of spring? ay, where are they?

      almost yearning to relive his youth
    • 'think not of them'
      come to terms with death being a part of life
    • 'soft dying day'
      juxtaposes the maturing sun
    • 'wailful choir the small gnats mourn'
      semantic field of death, choir wanting the end of autumn
    • 'gathering swallows twitter in the skies'
      winter drawing closer, migratory birds leaving
    • 'full grown lambs'
      end of spring, lambs are full grown so will either die or be slaughtered for food
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