"Autumn Movement"
by Carl Sandburg (1918)
I CRIED over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.
The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman,
the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.
The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes, new beautiful things
come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind, and the old things go, not one
lasts.
The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman,
the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.
The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes, new beautiful things
come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind, and the old things go, not one
lasts.
Nature is transient because it is alive. Therefore, the sadness of Sandburg's poem soon gives way to the celebration of life. The incorporation of Lavoisier's Law into the poem takes the colour of the cornflower to the scarf of "the copper sunburned woman", painting the images with a palette of warm colours.The whiteness at the end announces winter but the process is never interrupted; it just goes from one stage to the other, perpetuating the nature's cycle.
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