“Let Evening Come” by Jane Kenyon

1. “Let Evening Come” by Jane Kenyon Breanna Snyder 1302 English

2. Literal Meaning

3. Let the light of the late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn

4. Let the cricket take up shafting as a woman takes up her needles and her yarn

5. Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned in long grass. Let the stars appear and the moon disclose her silver horn.

6. Let the fox go back to its sandy den

7. So let evening come.

8. Symbolic Meaning

9. Evening in this poem represents death coming

10. Do not fear death because it’s as peaceful as the evening coming, there will be comfort and serenity.