"Autumn Rain" by D. H. Lawrence

 

Autumn Rain

The plane leaves

fall black and wet

on the lawn;

 

the cloud sheaves

in heaven’s fields set

droop and are drawn

 

in falling seeds of rain;

the seed of heaven

on my face

 

falling — I hear again

like echoes even

that softly pace

 

heaven’s muffled floor,

the winds that tread

out all the grain

 

of tears, the store

harvested

in the sheaves of pain

 

caught up aloft:

the sheaves of dead

men that are slain

 

now winnowed soft

on the floor of heaven;

manna invisible

 

of all the pain

here to us given;

finely divisible

falling as rain.

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Who wrote the poem "Autumn Rain"?

David Herbert Lawrence (September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930)

D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright. His works dealt with modernity, industrialization, sexuality, and instinct. His novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover concerned such controversial topics as gay and lesbian relationships. Although, due to his peculiar artistic style, he had to experience persecution and often was disgraced as a mere pornographer, some critics praise him for his artistic talents, integrity, and moral seriousness.

"Autumn Rain" explanation

The speaker depicts falling autumn rain vividly and somberly, using various imagery and metaphors. The poem was written in Autumn 1916 and published in February, 1917. The dark shadows of World War I may be looming behind the reference to ‘dead/ men that are slain’ and ‘heaven’s fields’ (perhaps referring to the Elysian Fields, the place reserved for heroes fallen nobly in battle in Greek mythology).