John Keats was known among the Romantic poets of his time. Unlike many of them Keats didn’t get to live that long. We’re going to be discussing one of Keats’ last poems “To Autumn,” which was published late 1819’s. Keats uses imagery and its various kinds along with personification and tone and theme to determine the meaning of this poem. This literary work mainly focuses on human interaction with nature and takes notice of only the present time and not the future. However, this poem does not take notice of other practiced human activities. With a plentiful amount of examples, the speaker’s obvious use of imagery is prominent through the whole poem. Each of the e stanzas emphasizes different types of images during different times of the …show more content…
In lines 13-14 the speaker explains to us how to find autumn and he uses imagery as to describe a picture of people looking through every “granary” - which is a place made to keep grains cool and dry- and you will eventually find autumn sitting on one of their floors. Also, autumn here is described as calm and has no care in the world since summer was the season of hard work. In line 15 “Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;” the speaker indicates that autumn is personified as a women because the image being perceived is a lady in the wind with her hair flying lightly to the soft wind, with nothing to do as if on holiday relaxed and finished with all of the hard work that has been done in summer. In lines 16 – 20 the speaker deviates into saying that if you could not find autumn on the floor relaxing you will find her “half-reaped furrow sound asleep,” which uses visual imagery to help draw an image of a lady sleeping in the field after the productiveness of summer. “Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy …show more content…
Each stanza is written in an iambic pentameter. The poem is also an ode because it addresses a person or a thing that cannot reply nor talk back. The rhyme scheme of each stanza is ABAB CDEDCCE which you can notice after each four lines which divides the stanzas into two sectors, one of four lines and another of seven lines. The first four lines of each stanza always carry the same idea which is ripeness and sound while the other seven elaborate on that idea. However, returning to the meter which is an iambic pentameter which means that the lines all have five iambs of stressed and followed by unstressed
The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.
The poem is separated into two parts, each with sixteen lines, and is loosely based on an iambic pentameter metre. The rhyme scheme is ABAB throughout the poem, with the noticeable exception of the last four lines of part II, in which it changes to
The poem does not follow a rhyme scheme or meter, which means that there is rhythm in the poem and it makes the poem more like a song. The poem has four stanza’s and has five lines within each stanza.
Jeremy Karr Karr 1 Mrs. Overbeck AP Literature & Composition November 29th, 2014 “To Autumn” Explication John Keats’ “To Autumn” uses the beauty, and abundance in the season of autumn in his ode to create a sense of transformation and rebirth. The poem begins with talks of autumn’s abundance and ripeness of fruit along with the beauty of autumn’s ability to begin the process of rebirth for plants, showing autumn’s simplicity and beauty. However, the speaker begins to talk as if autumn is a woman, one that wants to enjoy the harvest she has worked for during her life, finally using the beauties or songs of autumn that come out as the day ends to suggest that the speaker would rather enjoy what autumn has to offer in his final moments.
The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the
List at least three examples of imagery in the text that add to the overall tone. Explain how each description contributes to the emotional power of the piece.
These three lines are perfect examples of the imagery within the poem because they contain an image of a river with its small peeks and waves trembling and glistening in the afternoon sun. All the while it equates the natural beauty of the river to the beauty that the young man sees in the youthful maiden.
Because the poem is long, it won’t be quoted extensively here, but it is attached at the end of the paper for ease of reference. Instead, the paper will analyze the poetic elements in the work, stanza by stanza. First, because the poem is being read on-line, it’s not possible to say for certain that each stanza is a particular number of lines long. Each of several versions looks different on the screen; that is, there is no pattern to the number of lines in each stanza. However, the stanzas are more like paragraphs in a letter than
The use of visual imagery in each poem immensely contributed to conveying the theme. In the poem
This poem that I am going to be focusing on is titled "Ode to Autumn",
The twenty-four old romantic poet John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written in the spring of 1819 was one of his last of six odes. That he ever wrote for he died of tuberculosis a year later. Although, his time as a poet was short he was an essential part of The Romantic period (1789-1832). His groundbreaking poetry created a paradigm shift in the way poetry was composed and comprehended. Indeed, the Romantic period provided a shift from reason to belief in the senses and intuition. “Keats’s poem is able to address some of the most common assumptions and valorizations in the study of Romantic poetry, such as the opposition between “organic culture” and the alienation of modernity”. (O’Rourke, 53) The irony of Keats’s Urn is he likens
At one time or another, every person has experienced the beauty of summer. In this time of the year, nature is full of life, the weather is at its finest, and the paramount joys of life can be experienced to their fullest. Then the fall comes, the trees turn lovely shades of red and yellow, and the wind offers a nice chill breeze for relief. Unfortunately, seasons change and the beauty that people once experienced vanishes. People focusing only on the material and petty aspects of life, rather than the beauty around them, will let life pass them, missing out on the true wonders of the world. In his poem “To Autumn,” John Keats utilizes imagery to express the importance of indulging in the beauties of nature, while alive, because humans are mortal beings bound by the limits of time.
Structurally the poem is a ballad written in twelve quatrains. Keats wrote the poem with the intention of it being read as opposed to sung (Cummings). The first three lines of each quatrain are written in iambic tetrameter, while the fourth varies between iambic dimeter and
There are a lot of images in the poem. There is also a brief hint of