The fi rst metaphor compares the narrator’s age with autumn. How are “yellow leaves, or none” appropriate for comparison with a man’s age? What is implied by the comparison? The “bare ruined choirs”...

The fi rst metaphor compares the narrator’s age with autumn. How are “yellow leaves, or none” appropriate for comparison with a man’s age? What is implied by the comparison? The “bare ruined choirs” are the high place in the church—what place, physically, would they compare with in a man’s body?