"Yew trees had two common associations - they were grown in cemeteries and, even when old, they had the power to throw out new shoots. Thus, they suggested both death and regeneration. Which, if either, was it here?"
"There were funeral cypresses on the horizon, and the wintry light in the picture was very far from the ecstatic blaze of summer Sower, in which the sun flooded the world with gold."
