#10- "That Time of Year"

I think that there is a lot of imagery in this poem to show the theme of death and things coming to their end. In the first quatrain of the poem, there is the image of autumn. I usually think of autumn as beautiful, but here it signifies an end because it starts to get cold and only a few leaves hang, signifying life. In the second quatrain, there is a image of twilight, which is after sunset where the sun ends and the sky is dark. Finally,in the third quatrain, the author organizes another image to show an end of things which is one of a fire dying. As the fire dies, the room starts to get colder, the light fades, and soon only the ashes are left. These images show that the speaker is nearing the end of his life and soon he will become fire, autumn, or twilight. Finally, all these images show the constant progression of time and that everything will always end.