September
September - meaning Summary
Autumn's Gathered Moments
The poem presents September as the year’s gathered harvest of days, portraying autumn as a time of ripeness and completion. The speaker admires golden, matured moments alongside occasional bright, crimson pleasures that recall summer. These late delights atone for what has passed, suggesting a bittersweet appreciation of change: endings contain their own beauty and compensatory joys even as summer fades.
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