Critical Analysis Of Ode To Autumn

There are two factors which make Ode to Autumn sounds beautiful. First of all it seems he has always looked forward. He talks about autumn but he is thinking of the seeds which bring flowers in the feature. The second fact about this poem is that he is seeking the moment in his poem. He describes autumn as a woman who is enjoying his time, napping in the fields and not worrying about what comes next.
Ode to Autumn has aesthetic aspect. In the first reading, one can find out Keats is not only a great poet, but also a creative painter. His painting is not about using colors and sheets but using fascinating words. He has artistically chosen the words. From the very beginning the readers can be obsessed with the world of imagination, as if a great painter has painted different views of garden right in front of him.
In the first stanza we have

The poet describes the season as if it is a beautiful girl “sitting carelessly on a granary floor”. Or she is “drowsing with the fume of poppies”. How beautiful Keats has described the autumn’s scene. He sees the wheat as the girl’s hair which is “soft-lifted by the winning wind”. In the second stanza Keats describes autumn as a woman. Now it is after harvest time. The autumn is a woman who is hanging around, enjoying her life. She takes a nap in the fields. It is interesting that Keats has never used “she” or “her” but by reading it one can easily find out autumn is a girl. She sits in the “granary” and her hair is “lifted by gentle wind”. Keats uses “winnowing” for the wind. “To winnow” means “to blow air through grain in order to remove its outer covering” (A.S.Hornby 1750). So this word is a perfect choice. “Threshing floor” is “the place where the grain and the chaff are separated” (A.S.Hornby 1599). This is where autumn is hanging out. Here again Keats emphasize the idea of seeking the moment. He also as a Romantic poet, emphasize on the idea of taking pleasure from the