To Autumn Flashcards
1
Q
John Keats
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Tuberculosis
2
Q
Structure
A
Cyclical - 1st stanza - life 2nd stanza - transitionary period 3rd stanza - death Circles back
3
Q
At the beginning of the poem…
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“Seasons of mists and fellow fruitfulness!”
“Close-bosom friend of the maturing sun Conspiring with him”
“To bend with apples”
“Fill” “swell” “plump”
“For Summer has o’erbrimm’d”
4
Q
As the poem progresses…
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“Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?”
“whoever”
“half-reap’d furrow sound asleep”
“the last oozings hours by hours”
5
Q
Towards the close of the poem…
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“Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?” - frustration OR reflection on past
“soft-dying day… rosy hue” - finding beauty in world before death/transition into winter shown by -
“light wind lives or dies” - neverending cycle of life and death
“lambs loud bleat…hege-crickets sing” - life continues after death
