#1 What are the three major images introduced by the three quatrains? What do they have in common? Can you see and reason for presenting them in this particular order, or might they be arranged without loss?
There are three major images in this poem. The first one has to do with the seasons, I believe. It refers to yellow leaves and how none could be on a tree which makes me think of fall. The trees shake against the cold which also alludes to the fact that the weather is changing to cold. The next image I see is that of a sunset. It is twilight and then the sun fades away and everything is black and taken away to the night. Finally, there is the image of a fire and ashes where someone must expire. It says that the person in the ashes must expire and be "consumed with that which it was nourished by" (Shakespeare 967). This, to me, means that when we die, we may actually end up where we started, but no one really knows for sure or not. I don't see any way they could have been arranged in an order. Fall, a sunset, and a fire don't seem to have and order about them, but they do all begin and eventually end, so I think they are all about a person's life cycle.
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