The Falling of the Leaves
The Falling of the Leaves - meaning Summary
Autumn as Love's Ending
Yeats uses autumnal imagery to depict a relationship's gentle decline. Natural details—yellowing leaves, mice in sheaves, wet wild-strawberry leaves—mirror human weariness and the waning hour of love. The speaker urges a final, tender parting: a kiss and a tear as an acceptance of inevitable separation. The tone balances sorrow and affection, framing the end of passion as both natural and mourned.
Read Complete AnalysesAutumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves. The hour of the waning of love has beset us, And weary and worn are our sad souls now; Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us, With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.
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