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The poem concludes on a hopeful note, with the poet pleading with the God of May to have mercy on the trees and the buds and restore life to their dead bodies. The poet continues in the second stanza by comparing the exile or stifling of revolutionaries and reformers of the human world, who usually brought a flicker of hope for the underdogs, to autumn’s expulsion of the birds from their perches on the tree tops and the now bare trees’ going silent without the bird songs resonating from their branches.

However, just as the leaves did not flinch as they were blown to the forest floor and trampled out of shape, so too had the poor people resigned themselves to their plight, unable to muster the strength to utter so much as a whimper of protest. The yellow foliage stands for the working class, or underdogs, who were cruelly treated by the upper class. The poet likens autumn’s stripping the trees bare as it robs them of their greenery to the aristocrats’ persistent demeaning of the working class. The first stanza focuses on the oppression the poor man is under and his helplessness in the face of it. Autumn takes on the traits of an oppressor, while the trees that must endure its wrath stand in for the poor. Poetically, the poet employs autumn and its effect on trees as a metaphor for the oppression of the lower classes during the era of colonial dominance. Summary: The revolutionary poem When Autumn Came by the renowned Urdu lyric poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz fuses nature with the subjugation of the oppressed in a seamless pattern through the use of various metaphors. Additional/extra questions and answers/solutions.Describe the poet’s indistinctive treatment of nature as reflected in the poem. Answer these questions in your own words. Answer these questions in a few words each. Answer these questions in one or two words.