Autumn : T E Hulme : : Autumn Poems : :

Autumn
BY T. E. HULME
A touch of cold in the Autumn night—
I walked abroad,
And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
Like a red-faced farmer.
I did not stop to speak, but nodded,
And round about were the wistful stars
With white faces like town children.

Hulme in his 1908 poem, Autumn sets up a delicate relationship between the ruddy ( chromatic Blood red ) moon ( May be due to Sunset ), the red face of a farmer, and the time of – autumn – through an unverbalized ‘harvest’. He catches the pensive or a sad image of stars of the season of autumn. After being touched by the cold of Autumn. He steps outside / abroad and walks perhaps without any aim into the countryside with the ruddy moon hanging over a hedge and marking it just like a red-faced farmer. He just nods his head in reply to the ruddy moon lurking over a hedge just like a red-faced farmer and sees the sadness of stars like the white-faced town children. ( May be , because of the smog , dirt and grimness of town – life they stand out among their surroundings, much as the stars shine out against the darkening evening sky.) We can derive some sort of sadness as the poet expressed in his word, ” wistful stars ” : : A 7 lines Stanza in a brief Modernist poem has become expressive without any rhyme.

T E Hulme’s “Autumn ” : Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India October 11, 2022 : : આસો વદ ત્રીજ : : : : : : : :