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The poet uses the image of a “dock” while talking about the summer’s heat. But the poet presents it in a manner that it becomes simple to the readers. If the discussion is about the significance of summer-heat and autumnal heat, it becomes a little tricky. Heat being an abstract idea is hard to comprehend. ‘The Heat of Autumn’ by Jane Hirshfield talks about the difference between the heat of autumn and the heat of summer in the first few lines of the poem.
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#Country heat autumn full#
In the last two lines, the poet uses irony as well as a paradox.Īnd the river each day a full measure colder. Here the hands refer to the wife as a whole. There is a synecdoche in the line, “her hand placing silver buckles with silver”. The poet uses an extended metaphor while comparing the wife’s love for his husband to the heat of autumn. She places the “belts”, “socks”, and “sweaters” in ascending order of importance. The poet uses a climax in the lines where the wife is seen arranging her husband’s items. The line following it uses the metaphor of a horse to illustrate the heat of autumn. The first metaphor is present in this line, “One is a dock you walk out on”. The poet uses some amazing metaphors in the poem. It helps the poet to connect the sense of the lines internally. However, the major literary device used in the poem is enjambment. The poet uses it when it is necessary, otherwise, the simplicity of the poem is enough to engage readers in her thought process. ‘The Heat of Autumn’ by Jane Hirshfield doesn’t contain a variety of literary devices. As an example, the first line of the poem contains a hypermetrical ending. There are also some variations in the poem. The poet makes use of both the iambic meter and the anapestic meter in this poem. However, there isn’t a specific metrical scheme in the poem. The seventh and eighth lines again catch the rhythm. Likewise, the second and third line rhyme together. It is not a regular one but the poet uses internal rhyming for maintaining the flow of the poem. The rhyme scheme of the poem is interesting. There is a use of both short and long lines. The poem doesn’t have a specific line length. ‘The Heat of Autumn’ by Jane Hirshfield has a total of 14 lines. Her love is like the heat of autumn that fades away in the winter. But the wife remains constant in her duties towards the husband. In the upcoming lines, the poet presents a simple story of a husband suffering from cancer and his wife. While autumn is according to the poet like the shivering “spine of a thin swimming horse” in the cold water of a river. Thereafter the poet talks about the possibilities of the summer season. Cider is a type of apple juice that is generally made from the early apples of the summer season. The poet says, the summer-heat ripens the apples whereas the autumnal heat transforms them into “cider”. ‘The Heat of Autumn’ by Jane Hirshfield introduces the theme of the poem that is the difference between the “heat of autumn” and the “heat of summer” in the first two lines of the poem. ‘The Heat of Autumn’ by Jane Hirshfield presents the difference between the “heat of summer” and the “heat of autumn”.