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analysis of To Autumn

 

            
            
             Write an essay in which you analyse the poem "To Autumn" and comment on the poetic form and language used.
             I will start by making brief comments on each of the stanza separately followed by general comments on the whole of the poem. .
             STANZA 1.
             The poem is addressed to Autumn by name, just as a prayer would begin by invoking or naming the god it addresses, and then carries on to use a description rather than Autumn's proper name.
             "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness".
             Keats then uses a metaphor to name autumn again, this time adding an element of personification by calling the season the maturing sun's "close bosom-friend" and attributing to these friends the capacity of conspiring together.
             "Conspiring with him how to load and bless".
             Autumn and the sun make so many flowers bud late in the season that the bees have become confused:.
             "Until they think warm days will never cease,.
             For summer has o"er-brimmed their clammy cells".
             STANZA 2.
             This stanza too is addressed to Autumn. It begins with a question,.
             "Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?.
             The question is a rhetorical one, as Keats is stressing the fact that everyone has seen Autumn. The entire stanza's images take sights common in the countryside during Autumn - harvested grain, a partially harvested field, apples being pressed to make cider - and depicts upon them some action or attribute of personified Autumn. For example, the chaff blowing about in a granary is depicted as Autumn's wind-blown hair.
             "Drows"d" and "swath"ed" both include long slow vovels which serve to slow the .
             rhythm and pace the poem snf force the reader to dwell on each word. Many of the .
             images seem to picture Autumn at rest: "sitting careless, . sound asleep, .
             drows"d, keep, . steady, . with patient look"- while the real world .
             events referred to actually involve the harvest, a time of the year when people .
             have to work hard and get the crops in. Keats builds on this contradiction of.


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