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Essay heading: Poems, their subject and purpose
 
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Issue: Poetry & Poets
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Date added: July 1, 2009
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In the poem he emphasis that leaves do die just as we do, a trick which is written down in the "rings of (the woods) grain". The composer of this poem hopes to show that trees do not simply "sleep" every autumn but they die just like us at the end of their life span after which the next generation takes over and starts "afresh, afresh, afresh...
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Vincent Millay details the stark beauty of the autumn season, in direct contrast to the other two poems, as the each autumn the leaves wither and die. She describes the cold, harshness of the autumn season by the line, "Cold wind of autumn blowing loud.../Jostling the doors, and tearing through my bedroom"...
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