A Study Guide for Jane Kenyon's "Let Evening Come"
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Let Evening Come
Jane Kenyon
1990
Introduction
Let Evening Come
is a short lyric poem by Jane Kenyon, written in a traditional American form known as plain style. The poem portrays the closing of the day on a farm. Kenyon simply and beautifully describes the fading light across the homely objects of the yard. The sounds and rhythms of the poem are calming and hymn-like. By the end of the poem, the reader understands that thematically Let Evening Come
is a poem about accepting death and finding comfort in faith.
Kenyon wrote this poem while her husband, poet Donald Hall, some nineteen years her senior, was battling liver cancer. Neither Hall nor Kenyon fully expected him to live. Ironically, it was Kenyon herself who died just five years after the composition of Let Evening Come
from an aggressive form of leukemia. She was just forty-seven years old.
First published in Harvard Magazine in 1990, Let Evening Come
is available in Let Evening Come, published in 1990 by Graywolf Press, and in Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, published in 1996, also by Graywolf Press. It can also be found online at Poets.org and on the Poetry Foundation's Web site.
Author Biography
Kenyon was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on May 23, 1947, the daughter of Reuel and Polly Kenyon. She grew up in a rural area just outside the city and attended a one-room schoolhouse through the fourth grade, according to her husband, Hall, writing in an afterword to Kenyon's book Otherwise. Her father was a jazz musician who played at local clubs and taught music privately. Her mother was also a vocal musician who gave up her career after her children were born. Laban Hill, in American Writers, notes that Reuel Kenyon suffered from clinical depression and that Polly Kenyon was manic-depressive, making home life difficult.
Kenyon began writing poems while still a junior high school student. After graduation from high school, Kenyon attended the University of Michigan, earning a bachelor of arts degree in 1970, and continuing on to earn her master of arts degree in 1972. Kenyon met Hall as an undergraduate student in one of his large classes in 1969. The following fall, she took a small workshop with Hall