French for “Autumn Poem,” Hughes’s “Poème d’Automne” is a reflection on love and warmth in the cold of the world. Many great American writers spent time in Paris in the early 20th ...

Written between 1916 and early 1917 at a time when the Irish poet was thought to have been searching for lasting beauty in a changing world. Zaffar Kunial's poem Prayer recalls his father's very ...

Although the poem is about autumn (when ripened things have started ... winter – much like how a person’s life fades with time. Interpretation The poem describes a huge amount of energy ...