'Ode to Autumn\r'

'ODE TO AUTUMN crapper Keats This rime, an ode, is the last of Keats’ odes. In it, the poet exhibits a profuse mood of serenity by describing dip as a period of laid-back fruitfulness †a pacify of ripeness and fulfillment. This ode is k instantly for its remarkable sensuous beauty that is crafted by employment of several visual, tactile and auditive videories in concert with the personification of free fall as a woman tenanted in several(a) downfallal activities. In the rootage stanza, the poet has described the bounty of tumble. It is the season of mists and the growth of fruit. surrender and the sunbathe blend in together for the ripening of all kinds of fruits.The vines running cycle the edges of the thatch and orchard apple tree trees emergence in the cottage garden atomic list 18 weighed down pat(p) with fruits. Their fruits atomic number 18 ripening during dip. Besides the gourds atomic number 18 becoming larger and the hazelnut barmy are be filled with tonic kernels. For the bees, it appears as if t here(predicate) is no block to their happy days †pass †as there are whatever afterwards flowers still ruddinessing in declination, providing dear to them, even if their sticky combs are over-brimmed. The fork upsque word pictures and dissimilar visual and tactile imageries make the stanza a well-crafted maven.In the second stanza, the poet kick the buckets from the solid ground cottage to the outside field and describes various activities associated with autumn. He does it by employing personification that one al nigh visualizes these activities. It is the season of harvest and since most of the harvest works are performed by women, autumn is described as a woman. First, it is seen as a woman doing the work of winnowing. Secondly, one may see it as a reaper, a residual in the half-finished cable of crops. Thirdly, it may be seen as a gleaner, keeping her lemon-burdened head steady as she crosses a brook.Finally, autumn may be seen as a woman standing(a) patiently beside a cider-press for the last drops of apple juice. Unlike the offset printing stanza where autumn was energetic with activities, capitulation is found static in suspended activity or arrested accomplishment in the second stanza and the readers are invited to move from one scene to an some other in search of Autumn. In the final stanza, the poet appears to be overwhelmed by a pessimistic psyche and asks approximately the sweet medicinal drug of run which is absent in autumn. However, he outright rectifies himself and says there is nonhing to worry about the songs of bombardment as autumn alike has its own music.He then lists the various sounds of autumn which are generally heard in the evening time. The mourning of the gnats, the audible bleating of the bounteous lambs, the singing of the hedge-crickets, the whistling of the red-breast and the twittering of the swallows are the turgid sou nds that the song deals with. Thus, the third stanza is about the music of autumn and the imagery is auditory. If in the first stanza, the positive side of autumn as the handmaid of summer is stressed, here the season is hailed as the prelude to winter.The theme of the verse form is a delighted, sensuous enjoyment of the cryptic and mature beauty of autumn season. The poet’s imaginative response to the beauty of autumn appears in a series of vivid personifications of the season. The course of autumn traced in the metrical composition is non restricted to autumn. The movement of the poem from fruition to harvest, from satisfaction to ending epitomizes the real execute of life. Even sadness is seen in its true perspective as inborn from and part and parcel of the complete process. The poem is an acceptance of the beauty and the pain in life, and an affirmation of its dignity. Thou hast thy music to a fault’, is a relevant reminder that each one has his own tale nt and should bring home the bacon contentment in life. Extracts: a) Season of mists and unthaw fruitfulness, Close bosom- booster amplifier of the maturing sun Conspiring with him how to load and bless. i) why does the poet address ‘autumn’ as the ‘season of mists and mellow fruit-fullness? Ans. The poet addresses ‘autumn’ as the season of mists as during this season, we seat see mists on the open fields and on the other wet places in the mornings and evenings. He calls it a season of mellow fruitfulness because it’s during autumn that the fruits are in the process of ripening. i) How is ‘autumn’ a closelipped bosom-friend of the maturing sun? Ans. Autumn is a close friend of the maturing sun as both of them together help the fruits to ripen to the core. iii) What do the close friends conspire? Ans. The two close friends, autumn and the sun conspire to load and bless the vines and apple trees with fruits, to swell the gourds, to plump the hazel shells with sweet kernels and to help bloom some more flowers. b) And still more, by and by flowers for the bees, Until they echo immediate days leave alone never cease. i) What does the poet represent by the ‘ by and by flowers’? Ans.By the ‘ afterwards flowers’, the poet means to convey that flowering does not stop immediately after summer; in fact it continues though the number gets reduced. These are known as later flowers. ii) What makes the bees feel that warm days will never cease? Ans. The presence of later flowers and availability of erotic love for the bees makes them feel that the warm days shall never cease. iii) Describe the bee hives. Ans. The bees fork over stack awayed a lot of honey during summer, yet the presence of the later flowers makes them collect more and add it to their collection which is now over-filled in their sticky cells. ) Sometimes whoever seeks afield may find Thee school term heedless on a gr anary foot, Thy vibrissa soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; i) Who or what is being talked of here? Ans. ‘Autumn’ is being talked of here. ii) What is the poetic device employed here and what is its effect? Ans. The poetic device employed here is personification as ‘autumn’ is being described as a woman engaged in various harvest related activities. iii) Why is she seen sitting carelessly on the granary floor? What activity was she involved in? Ans. She back be seen sitting carelessly on the granary floor as she was engaged in winnowing work, i. e. eparating the chaff from the corn and she is sitting carelessly because she is not in a bad way(p) as the harvest has been very good. It is picture of fulfillment or contentment. iv) Mention at least two more places she burn be seen. Also mention in what condition she can be seen at these places. Ans. She can be seen in a sleeping posture, as she had been induced to sleep by the intoxicating smell of the po ppies growing in the field along with the corn, in a half-reaped furrow while her reaping hook spares the next swath. She can also be seen as a gleaner, crossing a brook and keeping her head steady.She can be seen sitting patiently at a cider-press and watching for the last drops of apple juice trickling down from the press. d) Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, — i) Who is being turn to here? Ans. Autumn is being communicate here. ii) This line is the answer to a drumhead asked by the poet. What is the question? Ans. The question is: ‘Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they? iii) What is being referred to as ‘them’ here and why should the addressee not pretend of them? Ans. ‘The songs of spring’ is being referred to as ‘them’ here and the addressee, i. . autumn should not think of them as it is useless to think of the past. It’s kinda wise to live in the present. Besides, autumn has its own music too . iv) Name a few sources of music associated with the addressee. Ans. The mourning of the gnats, the loud bleats of the full-grown lambs, the songs of the hedge-crickets, the whistles of the red-breast and the twittering of the swallows are the prominent sounds associated with the addressee, autumn. e) ‘Where are the songs of the 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 still hunt plains with rosy alter… ’ i) Name the poet and the poem. Ans. The poet is ‘John Keats’ and the poem is ‘Ode to Autumn’. ii) Who is being referred to as ‘thou’? Ans. Autumn is being referred to as ‘thou’. iii) What does the poet mean when he says ‘songs of spring’? Ans. By the songs of spring the poet refers to the joy and exuberance of spring season. iv) What image is conjured up with ‘stubble plains’? Ans. The grain has been harvested and nevertheless the short, dry stalks remain like the stubble of hair on the face.\r\n'