Simplicity is Power: An Analysis of the Poem "When Autumn Came" by Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:07:49
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 2 pages (672 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 2 pages (672 words)
Being in a country where there are only two seasons, we can only rely on images of winter, spring, or autumn on postcards, movies or television shows. Through these aids, we see the beauty these seasons bring, maybe to the point that we envy those people experiencing it first hand. Spring and autumn, the seasons between summer and winter, are seasons when most noticeable transformation takes place. The most obvious one is the change of …
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…it symbolizes life and renewal (spring is on May). This further supports the claim that the narration happens during winter - the "decaying" (autumn) is over, but the trees are not "revitalized" yet (which happens during spring). Also, pleading to a God creates a sense of urgency - the need to do something about it quickly. This urgency is already foreshadowed through the severity of the descriptive words found in the first and second stanzas.
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