| Walt: to practice comprehension skills
September
The golden‐rod is yellow
The corn is turning brown;The gentian’s bluest fringes
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
The gentian’s bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusky pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun.
The sedges flaunt their harvest
In every meadow nook;
And asters by the brookside
Make asters in the brook.
From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes’ sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With golden butterflies.
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather,
And autumn’s best of cheer.
Questions
2. What does the poet describe in the first two verses of the poem?
3. Read these lines from the poem:
By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather, And autumn’s best of cheer.
Based on this evidence, how does the poet most likely feel about the month of September?
4. Read these lines from the poem:
At noon the roads all flutter
With golden butterflies.
Based on these lines and what is described in the rest of the poem, what does the poet most likely mean by “golden butterflies”?
5. What is this poem mostly about?
6. Read these lines from the poem:
From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes’ sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With golden butterflies.
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
What does the poet most likely mean by the word “tokens”?
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7. Read these lines from the poem:
In dusky pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun.
Which of these lines has the same meaning as the second line?
- Will hide its spinning silk.
- Has spun its hidden silk.
- Its hidden silk is spinning.
- Its hidden silk will spin.
