To Autumn Flashcards
1
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Poet?
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John Keats
2
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About?
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Addressing Autumn directly personifying it as a woman. The poem moves from the start of Autumn to the oncoming winter
3
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Form and Structure:
A
The poem is an Ode to Autumn
Iambic Pentameter
Rhyme scheme changes throughout
4
Q
Q - First line, Direct address, soothing alliterative ‘m’
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‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!’
5
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Q - First stanza, humans and nature are interlinked.
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‘fruit the vines that round the that-ch eves run’
6
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Q - Autumn is beautiful
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‘Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind’
7
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Q - Swallows migrate for the winter
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‘and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.’
