To Autumn Flashcards
Close bosom-friend
of the maturing sun;
Matured
Right time to die
Contrasts Keats’ premature death
plump
swell
o’erbrimm’d
Sibilance “bees” “cease” “cells”
The produce of autumn and nature is plentiful and sometimes too much to bare
Possibly makes Keats feel claustrophobic
It is so plentiful that it is time to die
The produce is becoming its best, just like Keats both before death
soft-dying day
Present-continuous verb
small gnats mourn gathering swallows twitter full-grown lambs...bleat red-breast whistles Hedge-crickets sing
Even the animals recognise that it is time for autumn to fade away so they are bidding it goodbye through their singing.
Celebrating it through a beautiful medium - song - to mirror autumn’s beauty
Like how Keats is celebrating his life
His contraction of tuberculosis causes him to focus on the beautiful parts of autumn
As a Romantic poet, Keats focused on defining autumn through experience and senses therefore focused on the parts of autumn which invigorate the senses and saw the beauty in everything even death
ABABCDECDDE
Rhyme scheme is the same for each stanza
Represents cyclical nature of life and how it will always happen
Acceptance?
Until they think warm days will never cease
Acknowledges his mortality from the start
Possibly referring to people who haven’t realised their mortality yet
Trying to get people to truly realise they are not immortal
