to autumn

• '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