Poets often celebrate the beauty of the four seasons in their verse or employ them as emblems, symbols in their exploration of the human condition. Spring offers new life: budding trees, green grass, flowers of all sorts decorating lawns and woodlands. Summer brings hot days and warm nights, a slower pace of living, the cries and laughter of children or birdsong when the windows are flung open, and the perfume of damp earth after a rainstorm. Autumn possesses its special magic as well: the crisp air, the scarlet and golden leaves, the slow descent of grass and flowers into sleep again.
In broad poetic terms, spring symbolizes rebirth and resurrection, summer youth with all its reckless pleasures and joys, and autumn old age and the inevitable journey to death.
