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    Ode To Autumn

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    This ode celebrates the autumn season through vivid imagery. The first stanza depicts autumn in full bloom, with ripened fruits and crops ready to be harvested. Autumn works closely with the sun to bless the land with an abundant yield. The second stanza continues this imagery of harvesting and asks who has not seen autumn amidst the bounty of nuts and grains stored up. It depicts autumn as a woman resting after her work. The third stanza acknowledges the coming of winter, with signs like the "wailful choir" of insects and birds preparing for the colder months. However, it finds beauty in autumn's music and reminds that seasons are part of a cycle where one passes but eventually returns.

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    This ode celebrates the autumn season through vivid imagery. The first stanza depicts autumn in full bloom, with ripened fruits and crops ready to be harvested. Autumn works closely with the sun to bless the land with an abundant yield. The second stanza continues this imagery of harvesting and asks who has not seen autumn amidst the bounty of nuts and grains stored up. It depicts autumn as a woman resting after her work. The third stanza acknowledges the coming of winter, with signs like the "wailful choir" of insects and birds preparing for the colder months. However, it finds beauty in autumn's music and reminds that seasons are part of a cycle where one passes but eventually returns.

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    This ode celebrates the autumn season through vivid imagery. The first stanza depicts autumn in full bloom, with ripened fruits and crops ready to be harvested. Autumn works closely with the sun to bless the land with an abundant yield. The second stanza continues this imagery of harvesting and asks who has not seen autumn amidst the bounty of nuts and grains stored up. It depicts autumn as a woman resting after her work. The third stanza acknowledges the coming of winter, with signs like the "wailful choir" of insects and birds preparing for the colder months. However, it finds beauty in autumn's music and reminds that seasons are part of a cycle where one passes but eventually returns.

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    Ode To Autumn

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    This ode celebrates the autumn season through vivid imagery. The first stanza depicts autumn in full bloom, with ripened fruits and crops ready to be harvested. Autumn works closely with the sun to bless the land with an abundant yield. The second stanza continues this imagery of harvesting and asks who has not seen autumn amidst the bounty of nuts and grains stored up. It depicts autumn as a woman resting after her work. The third stanza acknowledges the coming of winter, with signs like the "wailful choir" of insects and birds preparing for the colder months. However, it finds beauty in autumn's music and reminds that seasons are part of a cycle where one passes but eventually returns.

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    Ode to Autumn

    This sensual masterpiece was written in 1819 by john Keats, filled with vivid description of
    autumn season. In the words of Maria Connors “‘to autumn’ is an ode that centers the
    aesthetics of nostalgia, depicting a speaker who chooses to celebrate a season of change as a
    key stage in the rejuvenation of the natural world”.
    First stanza is strained with the fullness, which is clearly visible from the imagery of burdened
    vines, ripened fruits and swelled gourds. Because the very beginning of autumn season is the
    time of the summer at its climax. The sun is called the ‘close-bosom friend’ of autumn as it
    shines frequently during the autumn season and without it crops would not ripen and harvest
    of autumn wouldn’t be possible.
    The imagery here suggests the union of a male sun and the female autumn being close bosom
    friends where autumn is ‘conspiring with him how to load and bless’. Trees are loaded with
    apples, fruits are ripened to the core, gourds are swelled and plump hazel shells shows that
    nature has been at hard work. Now autumn is getting charge and going to rule over the world.
    Bees have done their jobs as their hives are overfull. Their juicy nectar sucking will not be
    anymore since flowers will not bloom in the autumn.
    The second stanza opens up with a rhetorical question “who hath not seen thee oft amid thy
    store?". The developmental process of season is continued and it’s the time now to harvest
    which was sowed. Here autumn is personified with a woman. “ideology and audience response
    to death in Keats ‘to autumn’ Mark Bracher suggests that the images of reaping, winnowing,
    thrashing and pressing all refer to different acts of separation that occur in harvesting and thus
    embody the traditional significance of death as a limiting, separating event’. The young poet
    who is fighting with the death didn’t forget to mention here too.
    Whoever wants to find autumn can look on the floor of barn where grains would be stored as
    everything shed in autumn and only the stores are abundant with the variety of nuts and grains.
    Autumn is enjoying by letting her hair free in the wind. An impression of bodily existence of
    autumn can be observed by the reader due to the personified imagery of lying asleep, resting in
    the fields watching cider-press.
    Autumn has ‘drowsed with the fume of poppies’. She has gleaned her hard work and crossing
    the brook with the load on her head. The final image of the winter watching ‘the last oozing
    hours by hours’ is complementing with the summers end, over-briming of clammy cells at the
    end of the first stanza. Nothing lasts forever and it reminds of the cycle of seasons where one
    comes and bid farewell to the other.
    The imagery of third stanza, ‘soft-dying day’, ‘wailful choir’ and ‘the light wind lives or dies’
    gives the idea of things approaching to the end. His thoughts return to the spring and again asks
    a question ‘where are the songs of spring?’. Then forgets his nostalgic feeling and praise the
    music of the autumn which has its own tune and melody and can’t be devoid in front of spring
    season. The scene of ‘barred clouds’ sky and land gives the visual details of spatial and
    temporal emptiness.
    The ‘wailful choir’ of small gnats in the dying day is creating more sadness in the silent eve of
    autumn. The sensuous poet here too, shows his mastery over using the five senses and engage
    the reader in every aspect in the reading process. The hedge-cricket and the robin red-breast
    are communicating and flying swallows twittering and chirping in the sky giving the signal that
    winter is coming. All this is linked to a recognition of the path that was taken to get there
    leaving the reader with the comforting reminder that good things are never gone forever.

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