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To Autumn by John Keats is greatly known for its abundance of imagery. This helps to portray the sights and sounds of nature in the season autumn. Throughout the poem, autumn is personified as a person. It describes three stages of autumn: growth, harvest and death.
The tone of the poem is contemplative and lyrical. It is contemplative because the poet is thinking about autumn’s nature. Also, it can be lyrical because of all the detailed images it gives.
The first stanza is focused on the sights of this specific season. It discusses how autumn works with the sun to ripen apples and other fruit, swell the gourd and fill the hazel shells and let the flowers bud for the bees. Everything is growing at the moment. Keat exaggerates the growth of the crops because they are perfectly ripe.
In the second stanza, it is mainly concentrated on autumn’s characteristics activities. It personifies this season as a woman. “She” sits on a granary floor, reaper asleep in the fields, a gleaner, and cider maker. This is the season of preparing for winter. Contrasting to the first stanza where everything is perfectly matured, the season of autumn is nearing the end.
The last stanza is centered on the sounds of autumn. The gnats mourn, river swallows, lambs bleating, crickets singing, robin’s whistle, and swallows twittering. All of these sounds from the animals are just as beautiful as that of spring’s. The poet tells autumn to listen to her own sounds of music instead of spring’s because she has lovely melodies of her own.
To Autumn by John Keats is greatly known for its abundance of imagery. This helps to portray the sights and sounds of nature in the season autumn. Throughout the poem, autumn is personified as a person. It describes three stages of autumn: growth, harvest and death.
The tone of the poem is contemplative and lyrical. It is contemplative because the poet is thinking about autumn’s nature. Also, it can be lyrical because of all the detailed images it gives.
The first stanza is focused on the sights of this specific season. It discusses how autumn works with the sun to ripen apples and other fruit, swell the gourd and fill the hazel shells and let the flowers bud for the bees. Everything is growing at the moment. Keat exaggerates the growth of the crops because they are perfectly ripe.
In the second stanza, it is mainly concentrated on autumn’s characteristics activities. It personifies this season as a woman. “She” sits on a granary floor, reaper asleep in the fields, a gleaner, and cider maker. This is the season of preparing for winter. Contrasting to the first stanza where everything is perfectly matured, the season of autumn is nearing the end.
The last stanza is centered on the sounds of autumn. The gnats mourn, river swallows, lambs bleating, crickets singing, robin’s whistle, and swallows twittering. All of these sounds from the animals are just as beautiful as that of spring’s. The poet tells autumn to listen to her own sounds of music instead of spring’s because she has lovely melodies of her own.