to autumn Flashcards
‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’
gentle
sibilance
subdued
‘close bosom friend of the maturing sun’
not as intense
seasons work together
‘load and bless’
nature helps mankind
‘with fruit the vines that round the thatch eves run;’
nature and man intertwining
‘fill all fruit with ripeness to the core’
we need autumn
‘budding’
autumn gives life
‘later flowers for the bees’
still has life
‘who hath not seen thee oft amid they store?’
agricultural perspective
who hasn’t enjoyed being in nature?
‘seeks abroad may find’
spondee - slows the pace - contemplating
‘sitting careless on a granary floor’
free
man working with nature
‘twined flowers’
interconnected
death in intertwined
‘cyder press’
man and nature working together
‘thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours’
elongated vowels - reflects the seasons
feeling autumn
‘think not of them, thou hast thy music too’
autumn has its own rhythm
don’t neglect autumn
barred clouds bloom the soft dying day’
sun sets earlier
gradual
‘stubble plains’
last sprouts
liminality about autumn
‘wailful choir’
synchronicity of nature
‘light wind lives or dies’
liminality
‘full grown lambs loud bleat from hilly borun’
intermittent streams
‘garden croft’
man working with nature
structure
caesura - slows pace , more reflective
regular rhyme scheme - synchronicity of nature, cyclical structure of life
headlines
we shouldn’t neglect autumn
man and nature work together
the power of nature
autumn represents the easing of time
life and death are intertwined
there is life and value to be found in autumn
life and death are part of existence
the value of man working synchronously with nature
the end of a cycle still has value in it
