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    In the poem ‘Ode To Autumn’ Keats describes the beauty and characteristic spirit of autumn in a

    series of memorable pictures, exhibiting the principle of beauty in nature.

    In the first stanza of the poem the poet talked about autumn, the season associated with mists
    and a general sense of calm abundance. Autumn was an intimate friend of the sun, whose heat
    and light helped all the fruits and vegetables to grow. Autumn was scheming with the sun to put
    on and bless with fruit, the vines that were running around the roof. Thatch was reeds or some
    other plant that was used as roof covering. The apples were bending the branches of the trees
    they were growing on and were covered with moss, the thick green stuff that can grow on almost
    anything. The fruit was filled with ripeness to the core by which the poet meant that the fruit had
    grown to its fullest size and needed to be harvested. The gourd became big and full and hazel
    shells grew fat with a sweet nut inside. The flowers were growing new buds and kept growing
    more, and when these buds bloomed, bees gathered around the flowers’ pollen. Those bees
    thought that the warmth would last forever, because summer brought so many flowers and so
    much pollen that the beehives were now overflowing with honey.
    In the second stanza of the poem, the poet asked a question to the Autumn season that who had
    not noticed it. Further he explained that any person who found themselves wandering about how
    to find the Autumn season, was likely to find it sitting lazily on the floor of a building where grains
    were stored. The poet talked about the season’s hair being lifted by a light wind that separated
    the strands of the hair by which he meant how a harvester might separate the components of a
    grain of wheat. Autumn was asleep with the toxic smell of poppies in her nose. Therefore the
    next section of a long strip of land on which crops had been cut and the twisted flowers would be
    saved from being cut. Sometimes, Autumn was like the agricultural laborer who picked up loose
    cuttings from the fields after the harvest. Autumn had gleaned lots of leftovers and put them on
    her head. So the poet had described the Autumn season as a laborer, who had to be observant,
    who watched the stream with a full, heavy head of fruit and leaves. Other times Autumn would
    watch the cyder-press noting how the juice and pulp slowly oozed out of the machine over the
    course of many hours.
    In the last stanza of the poem, the poet expressed sadness that spring was not here. He asked
    where the music that characterizes spring and he repeated himself where it was by asking a
    question. The poet suggested not to think about the spring and its typical music as autumn had
    its own music. The poet described the background for the music as a scene in which beautiful,
    shadowed clouds expanded in the evening sky and filtered the sunlight such that it casted pink
    upon the fields, which had been harvested. The music included gnats, which hummed mournfully
    in a chorus among the willows that grew along the riverbanks, and which rose and fell according
    to the strength of the wind. They were mourning because of the dying day and also as the end of
    the summer was approaching. The poet also described that there were mature, fully grown lambs
    who were making loud sounds from the fence of their hilly enclosure. It included crickets singing
    in the bushes and a red-breasted bird that softly whistled from a small garden. And lastly, it
    included the growing flock of swallows, which rose and sang together against the darkening sky.

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