Essays on Autumn

‘Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in which Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the fruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring. The birds have gone. The teeming life that goes on down in the long grass is exterminated. The prairie-dog keeps his hole. The rabbits run shivering from one frozen garden patch to another and are hard put to it to find frost-bitten cabbage-stalks. At night the coyotes roam the wintry waste, howling for food. The variegated fields are all one color now; the pastures, the stubble, the roads, the

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One of the art works exhibited in the Legion of Honor museum, a subsidiary of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (FAMSF), is Vincent van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland (1883). The FAMSF commissioned van Gogh’s work from the Intimate Impressionism collection of the National Gallery of Art. Art works in the museum will be exhibited from May 11 to August 3 this year. Van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland is considered a Post-Impressionist painting because it represents the artist’s subjective views or perspective of the world, particularly of nature. Since Post-Impressionist views are

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One of the art works exhibited in the Legion of Honor museum, a subsidiary of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (FAMSF), is Vincent van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland (1883). The FAMSF commissioned van Gogh’s work from the Intimate Impressionism collection of the National Gallery of Art. Art works in the museum will be exhibited from May 11 to August 3 this year. Van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland is considered a post-impressionist painting because it represents the artist’s subjective views or perspective of the world, particularly of nature. Since post-impressionist views are

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Just as Keats opens his poem ‘To Autumn’ by describing the abundance and intimacy with the sun, this summer autumn will be a season of mellow fruitfulness for me. When the word ‘Mellow Fruitfulness’ rings in my ears, I feel like it is something that people would say during a wine tasting I love the cool, yet not cold weather of this season of autumn. According to Edgar, ‘autumn winds blow colder than summer’ (Edgar, 1), and I believe I will enjoy it this time. Just as the fruitful harvests of the crops during this autumn, I have always

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Analysis of the poem: “My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind”

In “My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind”, Tu Fu (also called Du Fu) attempts to depict the impact of rough and destructive nature on the poor in a sympathetic tone. In doing so, he starts with a detailed portrayal of the damage done to the roof of the speaker’s house following boisterous “autumn” “wind”. Then the poem’s tone gowns further as the speaker admits his helplessness facing children’s mockery and plunder. And as he goes into his home seeing his son sleeping under a leaking roof, the speaker’s sorrow becomes deeper. Thus,

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