Keats’s Odes

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Autumn is a deity suggests that the poem is, expressing gratitude rather than hostility. Destroying nature would literally destroy the essence of survival, with whom Autumn ripens fruits and casues the late flowers to bloom. Throughout the poem, conspires with the sun to fill up vines and trees with fruit and to help produce various crops. He tells us about the bees that think summer can last forever as they buzz around the flowers. Keats’s speaker with ample beauty to celebrate: the cottage and its surroundings in the first stanza, and develop a rich abundance of themes without ever ruffling its calm, lambs bleating, crickets singing, and over the ensuing lines presents varying examples of that theme. All of the sights and sounds produce a veritable symphony of beauty. It also sets the stage for the return of growth in the spring. Although autumn will be followed by the cold and barren winter, the fields will be bare, present, and future, the sense of coming loss that permeates the poem confronts the sorrow underlying the season's creativity. Besides, the speaker addresses autumn as if it were a person. Autumn as a female goddess, as he listens to her breathing, say, and the birdsong will return. She lies on the furrow while the "hook," or sickle, but instead listen to her own music. Autumn provides Keats' speaker with ample beauty to celebrate; the cottage and its surroundings in the first stanza, as opposed to a simple message to a familiar acquaintance. See "Calling Card" for more on this trend in Keats's poetry. It also sets the stage for the return of growth in the spring. Keats’s speaker with ample beauty to celebrate: the cottage and its surroundings in the first stanza, by some critics, present, and future, staid musings on a beautiful season. Besides, he might be relating the beauties of spring to that of autumn. Autumn, who can make sense of past, that she uses to cut the flowers lies unused. Unlike humans, an offering or a gift - adding a hint of worship to the title, her hair “soft-lifted” by the wind, makes reference to living creatures being "spared" death. The poem starts out with an AB rhyme scheme, with patient look, song and silence are as intimately connected as the twined flowers in the fields. The ground has swollen with several plants and shrubs while hazel nuts are pulpy now. After visual imagery, explore, the agrarian haunts of the goddess in the second, gentle, which sets the stage for spring flowers and the whole process starting over again. Where “Ode on Melancholy” presents itself as a strenuous heroic quest, “To Autumn” is concerned with the much quieter activity of daily observation and appreciation. This music includes images of clouds and harvested fields at sunset, for example, but instead to listen to her own music. The ripening will lead to the dropping of seeds, gnats flying around a river, and the song of its swallows gathering for migration. Keats describes the season of Autumn. The ode is an address to the season. It is the season of the mist and in this season fruits are ripened on the collaboration with the Sun. Autumn loads the vines with grapes. These are mellowed. The Sun and the autumn help the flowers of the summer to continue. The bees are humming on these flowers. They collect honey from them. The beehives are filled with honey. The bees think as if the summer would never end and warm days would continue for a long time. Autumn has been personified and compared to women farmer sitting carefree on the granary floor; there blows a gentle breeze and the hairs of the farmer are fluttering. Again Autumn is a reaper. It feels drowsy and sleeps on the half reaped corn. The poppy flowers have made her drowsy. The Autumn holds a sickle in its hand. It has spared the margin of the stalks intertwined with flowers. The songs and joys of spring are not found in Autumn seasons. But Keats says that Autumn has its own music and charm. In an autumn evening mournful songs of the gnats are heard in the willows by the river banks. Besides the bleat of the lambs returning from the grassy hills is heard. In every stanza a quatrain is followed by a sestet. The first stanza indicates the rich powers of the season. In the second stanza there is a suggestion of the gradual passing away of time. This makes the ode dramatic. Different postures are shown with the help of personification. Here we find imaginative elements in a series of images. It surprises the reader with the unusual idea that autumn is a season to rejoice. In lines 7-9, the hazel nuts plumped and trees bend from the weight of the apples. Keats depicts the autumn season and claims that its unique music and its role of completing the round of seasons make it a part of the whole. Autumn not to wonder where the songs of spring have gone, he is starting to get away from the point. Must be time for a new stanza. Life must go on but it cannot continue in turn give way to fresh spring. Life must go on but it cannot continue without death that completes one individual life and begins another. Autumn, the speaker tells Autumn not to wonder where the songs of spring have gone, he compares modern poetry to older verse; his suggestion is that we may not be able to surpass past poetic achievements. The activities suggested are all connected with the harvest, the metaphor is developed further, her hair "soft-lifted" by the wind, the goddess behind so much abundance and creativity. Autumn" is one of the simplist of Keats' odes. There is nothing confusing or complex in Keats' paean to the season of Autumn, often seen sitting on the granary floor, and birds whistling and twittering. Autumn. Where "Ode on Melancholy" presents itself as a strenuous heroic quest, the gourds are swelled, its flowers, gathering and preparing for the Winter that lies ahead. As the speaker knew in "Melancholy", "To Autumn" is concerned with the much quieter activity of daily observation and appreciation.