To Autumn by John Keats

Question 1

To Autumn
Person?
Form?
Structure?

Answer 1

1st, directly addressing autumn
Ode, pastoral lyrics, homage to Autumn
Iambic pentameter, temporal progress, Musical harmony, inevitability of change and death, sorrowful ending, arrival of winter

Question 2

To Autumn
Context?

Answer 2

-Romantic poet, died from tuberculosis at 25
-Written 2 years before death, inspired by describing a walk to a friend

Question 3

To Autumn
5 quotes

Answer 3

‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!’
‘Thee sitting careless on a granary floor’
‘with patient look,/Thou watchest the last oozings’
‘barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day’
‘red-breast whistles…swallows twitter’

Question 4

To Autumn
‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!’

Answer 4

-Direct address to autumn
-Soothing alliteration, tranquillity, calmness
-Abstract noun, vivacious, tempting

Question 5

To Autumn
‘Thee sitting careless on a granary floor’

Answer 5

-Archaic 2nd personal pronoun, familiar form
-Personified as relaxed, her work is done after harvest
-Post modifying adverb, effortless, elegance

Question 6

To Autumn
‘with patient look,/Thou watchest the last oozings’

Answer 6

-Metonymy, calmness, admiration
-Benevolent, overlooking natural world and its changes
-Onomatopoeic, opulence, lax vowel sound elongates process

Question 7

To Autumn
‘barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day’

Answer 7

-Plosive bilabial alliteration, echoes flowers, challenges beauty of spring
-Temporal progression, melancholic contrast to longer summer days
-Compound adjective, fading of autumn & Keats’ life

Question 8

To Autumn
‘red-breast whistles…swallows twitter’

Answer 8

-Synecdoche of winter arriving, moving on
-List of animals, world is alive, life continues
-Multiple noises, harmonious, sensory lg, beauty of nature