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Summary Of 'The Autumn' By John Keats

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Imagery brings poetry to life through the senses. It allows one to experience imagination through the differing senses; it indirectly enables one to conceive the mental picture and senses through this element. Imagery is a figurative language that is for the use of visual symbolism. The author utilizes vivid and descriptive text to imply a deeper meaning to the story being read. In John Keats’ poem, “The Autumn,” readers visualize the fall season through sensuous imagery to fulfill the purpose of an illustration of autumn.
The senses of sight, known as visual imagery, is frequently illustrated in this poem. The first line of the poem states, “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;” (Keats 771). The first line is filled with alliteration - mists, mellow, and maturing. It also describes how the fall consists of foggy air, and it expresses how the sun is fully developed and is beginning to diminish its brightness. During the fall, the sun is not compelled to shine as bright as it does in the summer or spring. The weather is cooler with cloudy skies, along with the leaves changing from bright green to warm colors. The leaves are falling from the trees with the help of the chill breeze. From the trees, grow tasteful fruits and eye-catching blossoms which assists the fall in letting one see the beautiful, graphic creation this season truly is. In essence, this poem allows one to experience taste or the gustatory imagery of fruit.
This piece of literary work notifies readers the taste of fruit during this season in several lines. In the first stanza, Keats details the trees and fruits of autumn through the line, “To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;” (771). The succulent taste of fruit is being represented and one is able to imagine and relish the taste of a ripe fruit down to its core. During this time, the fruit is growing maturely for one to harvest and to enjoy throughout this season and others to come. This line furthermore ties back with visual imagery by expressing the stage the trees are in. It declares how they are filled with thick, green moss on its’ trunks with apples hanging from their branches. Even from

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