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A Critical Analysis Of To Autumn By John Keats

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Introduction ‘To Autumn’ is among one the most famous excellent odes written by John Keats. Even though there is no critical or historical background in the poem, ‘To Autumn’ is a unique poem. It somehow represents the sequence of life, starting with the birth and ending with the death. Autumn is pictured as a warm and enjoyable season. The Fall is a very distinctive season, with several diverse features that make it different from the rest of the seasons and It is full of varied, sensual characteristics which add to its enchantment as an exclusive season. This great ode was the last poem he wrote before he died of tuberculosis. However, this ode is so much different from other works of him. Firstly, there is no tour from reality or deviation into …show more content…

Human kind is also like this; they will reach their perfection and then they are not so far from the autumn of their lives and afterward death. If one looks at this ode, sees the stunning pictures. The first and second Stanza pictures the beautiful sceneries of autumn activities. The third stanza is the symphony of the sounds that presents a normal autumn abend more alive and conceptual. The first stanza starts with the portrayal of the characteristics of Autumn. It is about the late summer and Fruits are still on the trees and the sun helps to get the fruits to be ripe and get juicy, and the grapes are filled with water, and the apple trees are bent down because of their good crops, and the last summer flowers have appeared, and the air is so warm that the honeybees are thinking that there is no end to summer. Overall it is a time of the procession of fruition growth. Everything has reached somehow the stage of mature, yet continues the growth. To be more accurate, the narrator addresses autumn directly. Fruits and vegetables are totally ripe and in the fields, the products are being harvested and even some of

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