Context

Question 1

Who is the author?

Answer 1

John keats

Question 2

When was it created?

Answer 2

1820

Question 3

What inspired him?

Answer 3

An evening walk in Winchester

Question 4

How does Keats death make it more important?

Answer 4

It was one of the last poems he produced before he died (and ran out of money)

Question 5

In the first Stanza Autumn is presented as…

Answer 5

A time of peacefulness (celebration of autumn with reference to abundance and a fruitful period) with and under one of misery

Question 6

In the second Stanza Keats personifies Autumn…

Answer 6

It presents autumn as a fertile, female goddess with an edge of cruelty “hook”. “Spares” implies a sense of fairness but underlining dismissed nature - almost threatening

Question 7

In he last Stanza he suggests the Autumn is mourning

Answer 7

Evidence of this is “soft-dying day” which also suggest cruelty and implies a bloody end, dispose his beautiful imagery