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The poem is written in first person which highlights the many different points of view while reading the poem. The author lets us create our own personal points of view about the topic. There is no doubt that the author or writer is ready to head to summer and leave all its worries away.

His story shifts from talking about the darkness of winter to the lightness of summer. Throughout the whole story he keeps his tone the same even talking about the dark winter.

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Stanza 1:  When the author talks about turning southward toward the "summer isle" where there are "smiling flowers". I interpreted the turning toward the isle as if you were turning away from winter and going to summer where flowers are all around and it welcomes you with a "smile".

Stanza 2: When the author is talking about the quiet hill I interpret it as leaving the crazy, busy winter behind and moving on to a quiet, calming, relaxing summer.

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Imagery: The use of vivid language to generate ideas and/or evoke mental images, not only of the visual
sense, but of sensation and emotion as well.

Example: In stanza 2 the author uses imagery
"And we will build a cottage there
Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
And ferns that never fade."

Effect: The effect that this has on me, the reader, is that it really helps me imagine what the speaker is trying to say. I can imagine a cottage next to a forest with these beautiful blue flowers and ferns surrounding it.  Throughout the whole poem the author does a good job helping me imagine what the speaker is talking about. However, in these few lines I can imagine everything with detail.

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Personification: Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.

Example: In stanza 1 the author uses personification
"And wide-mouthed orchids smile"

Effect: The effect the this has on me, the reader, is it gives flowers (orchids) a human quality and trait. It makes me think that the place he is describing is welcoming him. Since they are smiling it means that the place he describing it joyful and are willing or want to embrace him or the reader.

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Euphony: A series of musically pleasant sounds, conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to the language.

Example: In stanza 2 the author uses euphony in:
"And leaps the laughing crystal rill,
And works the droning bee.
And we will build a cottage there
Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
And ferns that never fade."

Effect: The effect that this has on me, the reader, is it gives imagery to what the scenery and or scene the speaker is trying to create the poem. It gives me the ability to imagine the buzzing sound from a bee with flowers and ferns growing all around me with. These lines in the poem bring me a scene of clarity and calmness.

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Stanza 1: In the first stanza talks about the leaves falling off of the tree and the birds sleeping attics over night. The speaker also talks about facing south looking toward the summer islands, seeing bamboos and orchids.

Stanza 2: In this stanza basically it is talking about finding a quiet hill and building a house on top of it.

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Vocabulary:
~Eaves: the part of a roof that meets or overhangs the walls of a building.
~Glade: an open space in a forest.

Reference:
~ Summer Isle: The Summer Isles are an archipelago lying in the mouth of Loch Broom, in the Highland region of Scotland.

(There are no allusions within this poem)

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Birth Date: 15. September 1889
Location of Birth: sunny Ville, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
Death Date:  22. May 1948
Location of Death: Chicago, Illinois
Cause of Death: Heart Attack

Interesting Facts:
~McKay blended his African pride with his love of British poetry. He studied poetry and philosophy with Englishman Walter Jekyll, who encouraged the young Claude McKay to begin producing poetry in his own Jamaican dialect.
~A London publishing house produced McKay's first books of verse, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads, in 1912.

Sources:
“404 Error.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, www.biography.com/people/claude-mckay-9392654\.

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Some day, when trees have shed their leaves
And against the morning’s white
The shivering birds beneath the eaves
Have sheltered for the night,
We’ll turn our faces southward, love,
Toward the summer isle
Where bamboos spire the shafted grove
And wide-mouthed orchids smile.

And we will seek the quiet hill
Where towers the cotton tree,
And leaps the laughing crystal rill,
And works the droning bee.
And we will build a cottage there
Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
And ferns that never fade.