As Leaves Fall

Human generations, autumn souls, and a reminder against fear

Leaves give human mortality a visible shape. Homer places brief lives beside the forest’s renewal; Virgil gathers the dead beneath an autumn image. Marcus makes Homer’s words a daily reminder, while Dante follows each soul as it leaves the shore.

1. Iliad 6.146–149
2. Iliad 21.462–467
3. Aeneid 6.305–312
4. Meditations 10.34.1
5. Inferno 3.112–117