Autumn : A Dirge Analysis

Author: Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley Type: Poetry Views: 683

The warm sun is falling, the bleak wind is wailing,
The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,
And the Year
On the earth is her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead,
Is lying.
Come, Months, come away,
From November to May,
In your saddest array;
Follow the bier
Of the dead cold Year,
And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre.

The chill rain is falling, the nipped worm is crawling,
The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling
For the Year;
The blithe swallows are flown, and the lizards each gone
To his dwelling.
Come, Months, come away;
Put on white, black and gray;
Let your light sisters play--
Ye, follow the bier
Of the dead cold Year,
And make her grave green with tear on tear.

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Shelley uses alliteration of the low pitched consonants in the first few lines of the poem. Perhaps the w's and b's are the sighing, slow death of the season.
It is interesting too to notice his use of repetiion. Repetiion serves as emphasis, but the stanza provide a contrast rather than a similarity. The first stanza ends in death and the second in life. Does the repetition display its necesity?
Death comes before life to lighten the end of the poem and to display Shelley's optimism, despite the divorice, disfavor of his father-in-law and deaths of his sons.

| Posted on 2005-05-10 | by Approved Guest

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