Ode To Autumn

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Ode to Autumn

Alliteration, very descriptive.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Personification

This stanza is full of vivid imagery of fruit and flowers and the rewards of summer, this is created by its richness in sensual language and sibilance.

Personificationthis whole stanza is personifying autumn

Simile

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cider-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Theme of excess being continued from Keats use of the words: fill, swell and plump. Keats continues to allude to this theme in the addition of an extra line in the traditionally 10 line stanza for an ode.

Rhetorical question Image of lethargy. This is alluding to opium, a drug created with poppies. also in line 9 through the image of a laden head which is alluding to his own life due to his illness, realising it is coming to an end . Descriptive language of oozing emphasizes the slowness of time passing through his repetition of hours by hours which again slows down the line and causes a lethargy to maintain the stanzas main theme.

Oxymoron and Juxtaposition between soft and dying day, managing to make death seem inviting.

personification

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Rhetorical question- this may be Keats himself asking where is life? Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; The personification of choir and mourn creates imagery of a funeral, And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; again alluding to his own future but Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft also the passing of the summer. The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. Juxtaposition between lives or dies a
Bleat, sing, whistle and twitter all create strong imagery of the scene- and even though singing and whistling is usually associated with happiness we can safely assume it has taken a more morbid tone. tipping point for Keats which he encapsulates in the concept of autumn, To Autumn is basically an allegory of his own inevitable death.

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