Tawny
Tawny - meaning Summary
Autumn Recalling a Face
The poem celebrates autumn's colors and sensations as a season that revives a remembered face. Sandburg links sensory, agricultural imagery—grapes turning purple, early red sunsets, misty mornings, welcome frost, golden hills and pumpkins—to an intimate return of presence. The repetition of "tawny" frames the season as both mood and memory, where landscape details trigger personal recollection and gentle longing.
Read Complete AnalysesTHESE are the tawny days: your face comes back. The grapes take on purple: the sunsets redden early on the trellis. The bashful mornings hurl gray mist on the stripes of sunrise. Creep, silver on the field, the frost is welcome. Run on, yellow balls on the hills, and you tawny pumpkin flowers, chasing your lines of orange. Tawny days: and your face again.
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