Everyday Vignettes: Fall Edition

Free Write Prompt

Tell me what fall symbolizes for you.  Ready? Write for 10 minutes.

Poem Prompt

Write a three stanza poem revealing your personal symbolism for Fall--

• stanza 1, reminisce about something that happened (that you associate with season)
• stanza 2, describe fall with provocative detail
• stanza 3, tie them together, bringing reader back to present and what it all means now in the Fall of 2019

(OR)
Write a love letter/break up letter to Fall, in the form of a poem.  Write for 15 minutes.  Ready? GO!

Example Poems

These poems are chosen for the way they describe the endowment of harvest, the sensual bounty of the season, and the coming of winter.  More poems were added for their treatment of fall as an archetypal season and as a metaphor for a significant experience in the human condition.

McGrath, Frost, Oliver, and Williams each evoke an American-ness, as we love them in our roundhouse of "great American poets."  Hirschfield, Garcia, and Zagajewski employ fall, metaphorically.  Keats, Rilke, and Browning lend the classical structured voice to the lineup.  It's a lovely leaf pile of poems !

• The Heat of Autumn Jane Hirschfield
• Autumn William Carlos Williams
• Autumn by Richard Garcia
• After Apple-Picking Robert Frost
• To Autumn John Keats.
• Day in Autumn Rainer Maria Rilke
• Song for Autumn, Mary Oliver
• Among the Rocks by Robert Browning
• Autumn by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Renata Gorczynski 

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