";s:4:"text";s:2634:" A selection of our favourite poetry about autumn, the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’. Are nine-and-fifty swans. By William Butler Yeats. With leaves turning golden, nights drawing in and fires being lit, autumn is the perfect time to settle down in a comfy chair with some poetry for company. All hopes of spring and all actions of summer are finished with autumn. It can be enjoyed for its beautiful imagery, but the poem's subtext is the pain of the passage of time. Nature in its adult state inspires for solitude and thinking. William Butler Yeats' 1917 poem lyrically describes another lush autumn day. Carpet of orange, yellow and brown leafs is the best field for long walks. It can be enjoyed for its beautiful imagery, but the poem's subtext is the pain of the passage of time. It is a sumptuous description of the season of autumn in a three-stanza structure, each of eleven lines, and of an ABAB rhyme scheme. (2) With its depiction of the progression of autumn, the poem is an unqualified celebration of process. Probably the most famous poem about the season in all of English literature, Keats’s ‘To Autumn’ is also one of the finest autumn poems in the language. The nineteenth autumn has come upon me. Written on September 19, 1819, in Winchester, “To Autumn” is commonly considered one of the Keats’s most accomplished odes. by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) UTUMN is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves. William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) was a leading figure of 20th century literature who remains Ireland’s most famous poet.In 1889, Yeats met Maud Gonne, an English-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and actress.Yeats fell deeply in love with her but she turned down at least four marriage proposals from him; and instead married Major John MacBride.