Prompt: Choose one or two of the assigned poems that includes a significant amount of Nature imagery. In a detailed analysis, explain how the poet uses this imagery to explain his theme.
Analyze Autumn from “The Seasons” by James Thomson.
Particularly, analyze these lines:
1. The lower skies, they all at once converge
High to the crown of heaven, and, all at once
Relapsing quick, as quickly re-ascend,
And mix and thwart, extinguish and renew,
All ether coursing in a maze of light.
2. In bleeding fight commixed, the sanguine flood
Rolls a broad slaughter o’er the plains of heaven.
As thus they scan the visionary scene,
On all sides swells the superstitious din,
Incontinent; and busy frenzy talks
3. Curious surveys, inquisitive to know
The causes and materials, yet unfixed,
Of this appearance beautiful and new.
Now black and deep the night begins to fall,
A shade immense! Sunk in the quenching gloom,
Explain the theme, message, and symbolism of the poem.
