Mod A (To Autumn)

Question 1

• Meditation on death
• Fanny as personification of Autumn

“or by …..-….., with patient …., thou watchest the last …… hours by ….”

Answer 1

“or by cyder-press, with pateint look, thou watchest the last oozing hours by hours”

• Cyder-press METAPHOR for Keats himself as his sickness is worsening
• Autumn, or Fanny, is patient and plays witness
• Romantic fascination with death

Question 2

-Transition from youth to aged

“close …..-….. of the maturing …”

Answer 2

“close bosom-friend of the maturing sun”

• INTIMATE LANGUAGE evokes idea of being close to nature, immersed in it
• “maturing sun” CONNOTATIONS of warmth and growth and intermission, transitive period

Question 3

• Finding beauty within decay and deterioration
• Maturation
• Cycle of life

“While barred ….. bloom the ….-….. day and touch the stubble …… with rosy hue”

Answer 3

“While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day and touch the stubble plains with rosy hue”

• Love, beauty and gentleness
• GENTLE LANGUAGE around death
• pastoral, picturesque TONE