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’THE SEVEN SORROWS’’ by Ted Hughes is a poem about the seven sorrows of the autumn season. Autumn is usually known as the season of fall and it marks the transition from summer to winter. The arrival of the night becomes noticeably earlier, so the poet calls it as the first sorrow, “is the slow goodbye of the garden who stands so long in the evening.” He begins the poem with the imagery of nature and gradually moves on to death. Most of Hughes’ poet...
