That Time of Year

In The poem That Time of Year by William Shakespeare, a certain season is talked about. I think "that time of year" is referring to the end of fall. In the first few lines, it talks about the leaves falling from the trees and the cold coming. "When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold, bare ruined choirs where late where late the sweet birds sing" (Shakespeare, 2-4). The yellow leaves symbolize the leaves changing colors during the fall and autumn season. When the poem talks about the none or few leves hanging, it's talking about the time of year when the leaves are all falling from the trees. The poem is also referring to to time when there are only a few are still on the trees. At this point, winter is quickly approaching. The bare ruined choirs symbolizes the bare, empty trees after all the leaves have fallen at the end of fall or autumn and beginning of winter. When the poem talks about the trees shaking in the cold, it is referring to the bits of winter breeze that are seen at the end of fall, right before the beginning of winter. Throughout the poem, the reader is shown many symbols that lead him or her to believe "that time of year" is the end of fall, beginning of spring.