End of Summer
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End of Summer by Stanley Kunitz
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Stanley Kunitz wrote “End Of Summer” in 1953
It is easy to say this poem is merely about the changing seasons and how nature has an effect on an individual as it changes. However, one may argue that this poem is more than nature and the changing of a season, but a change in a persons life. Whether...
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An agitation of the air,
A perturbation of the light
Admonished me the unloved year
Would turn on its hinge that night.
I stood in the disenchanted field
Amid the stubble and the stones,
Amazed, while a small worm lisped to me
The song of my marrow-bones.
Blue poured into summer blue,
A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,
The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew
That part of my life was over.
Already the iron door of the north
Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows
Order their populations forth,
And a cruel wind blows.
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When did Stanley-kunitz release End of Summer?
Stanley-kunitz released End of Summer on Thu Jan 01 1953.