Critical Appreciation Of Autumn Sonnet 2

The poet uses the associations with autumn to comment on love by explaining how love is the trees in autumn who survive the winter. For instance, the lines, “The strong root still alive under the snow, love will endure – if I can let you go.” From these lines I can conclude that although the poet might let go of her lover like how trees let of their leaves, their love will continue because the roots of the tree never die throughout the winter. For this example, of a comparison of love to autumn, the poet creates an image of a tree root prospering under the snow, even if the part of the tree above ground looks dead. Additionally, the author correlates autumn with love in the lines, “If I come to know what they do know, that fall is the release,

What makes the poem interesting is the turn in the poem because it is difficult to pick out since the poet never seems to find a solution to her problem, she continues to ask, “If I can…” throughout the poem. Personally, I regard the last sentence as the turn because the poet goes from comparing love to autumn to comparing herself to autumn when she begins with the line, “If I can take the dark with open eyes.” There’s a shift beginning at this sentence because the poet starts stating the effects of what will happen to her when she lets her lover go instead of describing how she will let go of her lover. The devices I find most effective are personification and metaphor because through their comparisons, I was able to comprehend the meaning of the poem. For instance, the line, “For love itself may need a time sleep,” uses personification and helps me understand that the poet believes that her and her lover need a break from each other, even though they may love each other. Additionally, the line, “Then fear of time and the uncertain fruit,” uses a metaphor between uncertain fruit and the unknown outcome which helps me understand what the poet shouldn’t be worried