‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ is a very fine poem written by W.H. Auden. In this poem the poet describes the frustration that is naturally present in human life.
Here, the poet says that now the leaves are falling fast. It means all human beings are going towards death very fast, due to diseases and other reasons. During their life span, their desires and aspirations are not fulfilled. So, they become hopeless and feel loneliness. The messengers of death are present everywhere in different form to snatch human happiness. The people who are today, will die
tomorrow. People have confined themselves. They are suffering from the sense of loneliness in which they live and die. The poet says that the starving trolls are suppressing the gentlemen and wondering in this world in search of their prey. As the gentlemen dare not to oppose them and they are silent. The shocked silence of the nightingale completes the image of death.
Thus, the poem concludes with a feeling of optimism. The poet also says that like a tree every human life to be destroyed.