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Sunday 31 October 2021

A POEM ON THE AUTUMN SEASON BY THE GREAT POET TED HUGHES

 




’THE SEVEN SORROWS’’ by Ted Hughes is a poem about the seven sorrows of the autumn season. Autumn is usually known as the season of fall and it marks the transition from summer to winter. The arrival of the night becomes noticeably earlier, so the poet calls it as the first sorrow, “is the slow goodbye of the garden who stands so long in the evening.” He begins the poem with the imagery of nature and gradually moves on to death. Most of Hughes’ poetry abound in nature imagery in general and animal imagery in particular.

“The sun who gathers the minute of evening’’ relates to the last phase of life. The evening and the sun setting usually has connotation to old age and death, though the sun does not signify death. It is the minute of the evening which refer to the last stages of man’s life, the last moments when everything is packed up. Death is a natural and inevitable sorrow which exists in everyman’s life.

The sixth sorrow being the fox’s sorrow, whose pleas ae just ignored and only fall on deaf ears. This precisely reflects the callousness and indifference shown by people to other‘s suffering as is true of the proverb “when you cry, you cry alone.”

The last stanza denoting the seventh sorrow as the “slow goodbye of the force with its wrinkles”, relates to the old age when the wrinkled face looks out of the window, searching for traces of joy, the joy that evaded him during his entire life.

The mortality of man and the ephemeral quality of life are reflected in the last lines. The passing of  a year is realised by the change of seasons. The four seasons have different characteristics and cause changes in the world. The poet relates the change of seasons with the life of man

The poet poignantly captures the various images of the onset of autumn which brings about changes all around. In the concluding part, the poet ties it all to human beings and explains how the change of seasons affects their lives. Growing old with the passage of time is one such instance.

 

 


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