The poem, “Autumn”, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is a short poem that describes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s views of autumn. I think that he really likes the season autumn because of the way he describes the season. He compares the season to an emperor named Charlemagne.
“Thou standest, like imperial Charlemagne,
Upon thy bridge of gold; thy royal hand
Outstretched with benedictions o’er the land,
Blessing the farms through all thy vast domain!” ( Longfellow 5 – 8 )
He describes Autumn as an emperor standing on a bridge of gold, blessing the farms that are in its domain. I think that he says this because in the autumn, the leaves change colors and turn golden so that could be what Longfellow meant as “a bridge of gold”. Another thing that happens in the autumn that Longfellow referenced in this poem is how all the plants grow and all the crops are harvested. “Blessing the farms through all thy vast domain” means that when autumn comes, the farms are blessed because they are harvested. The line “Thou standest, like imperial Charlemagne” describes autumn standing like an emperor. I think that since Longfellow described autumn in this way that it means that he probably really likes autumn.
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