‘Ode to Autumn’ – John Keats
The name of the poem, gives the readers a foresight as to what the poem is about. An ‘Ode’ is celebration of something and by reading the title the readers knows that here Keats is praising autumn.
In the first line of the poem, using an apostrophe, Keats tells us so much about autumn in this one line. ... But apart from this autumn is a time when all the trees are full of fruit, and all this fruit is ‘mellow’ that is smooth, rich and full of taste. In the next line Keats acts as if the sun and autumn are the closest of friends which he emphasizes in the poem by using not only ‘close’ but ‘bosom’ as well to explain the tightness of their relationship. The sun is then personified and with the word ‘conspire’ Keats brings out the image that the sun and autumn are conspiring together to produce all this ripe succulent fruit, for every plant needs the sun’s nourishment to grow. ... During the end of autumn there is one last burst of flowers as if nature knows that winter is coming and wants to show off its splendor one last time before winter takes over and hides the beauty of the earth for the months to come. ...
The second stanza begins with a rhetorical question, in which Keats associates the harvest with autumn. Autumn is personified and described at first as a women laborer sitting on the floor of a place where the grain collected from harvest is stored. ... Autumn is again personified but this time is pictured as laborer so tired after working has fallen asleep in the middle of reaping a field. ... Next autumn is compared as a gleaner. ... Keats depicts autumn here as a gleaner that has already collected some harvest and is trying to cross a brook with the harvest on his now ‘laden head’.
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