Keats To Autumn - Passage Analysis

Question 1

WHAT sentence

Answer 1

While it celebrates a season traditionally associated with loss, ‘To Autumn’ expresses Keats’ growing acceptance of the mortality of nature.

Question 2

In opening stanza, early autumn is portrayed as a prolongation of summer where ‘warm days will never cease’

Answer 2

Adjective ‘warm’ w/ connotations of abundance and growth, highlights fullness of the flowering season.

sensual verbs eg. ‘swell’ ‘plump’ and ‘bend’ allows Keats to paint vivid picture of nature in its prime as fruits of Autumn burst with ripeness = changes readers perspective

Question 3

During stanza 2, Autumn is described ‘like and gleaner’ during the harvest season

Answer 3

• Similie ‘like a gleaner’ = employed in order to personify autumn as peaceful collector of the leftover produce as they become overripe = further indicative of the passing of time + finality of nature’s mortality.