Welcome back to the Daily Poem. I'm David Kern, and today is Thursday, November 4th, 2021.

Today's poem is by poet named Dante Gabriel Rosetti, I guess technically, Gabriel Charles Dante Rosetti.

He was an English poet, also an illustrator, and a painter, and a translator, and of course,

is a member of the famed Rosetti family.

He lived from 1828 to 1882 and was one of the key founders of the pre-Raphaelite movement in the 1840s.

His work was influenced by Keats and William Blake,ake and i think you see particularly the keats influence

in today's poem which is called autumn idleness but rosetti is one of those really influential figures

that probably you know more about the people that he influenced you know those people like

william morris and edward burn jones you know, people like that. But the poem that

I'm going to read today is in keeping with the other fall poems for this weekend. As I said,

it's called Autumn Idleness. It goes like this. This sunlight shames November where he grieves in dead red leaves,

And will not let him shun the day, Though bow with bow be overrun.

But with a blessing every glade receives high salutation,

While from hillock eaves the dear gaze calling, dappled white and done, as if

foresters of old the sun had marked them with the shade of forest leaves. Here dawn today unveiled

her magic glass. Here noon now gives the thirst and takes the dew, till Eve bring rest

when other good things pass. And here the lost hours, the lost hours renew while I still

leave my shadow or the grass, nor know for longing that which I should do.

I mentioned earlier that his work was influenced by William Blague and John Keats.

And, you know, in particular, Keats was known for his sonnets, his nature sonnets. So we see that here.

This is a sonnet. And there's two things that, you know, you can always look for in a sonnet.

What sort of problem is presented and what happens after the turn. So after those first eight lines.

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