To Autumn: Stanza 1 by Allison Nelson

Paraphrase

136446 — 2018-09-26 16:53:10 UTC

Season of fog and harvest
Tied to the sinking sun
Working together to make
Trees and plants bloom
With fruit
And make the fruit ripe
And make the other food good
So that it may be harvested again next year
It also provides for insects
And gives them warm days
Before the cold of winter

imagery

166946 — 2018-09-26 16:54:23 UTC

"And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; to swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells". The image depicts this line, along with little bits of other lines. The hand, i thought, represents God in a way. The speaker uses personification which I thought made it sound as if he is referring to God, "conspiring with him how to load and bless"

Personification

1748191 — 2018-09-26 16:58:19 UTC

Keats uses personification to give the reader detailed imagery and to emphasize the importance of autumn.
“Close bosom friend of the maturing sun/ conspiring with him how to load and bless” -gives imagery and personality to the idea that autumn is sunny
"Fill all fruit with ripeness” - gives imagery that autumn is the cause of the harvest
“Later flowers for the bees/until they think warm days will never cease” - gives imagery and detail, the bees, like humans, think the warm sunny days will never end.

Theme

166946 — 2018-09-26 17:00:15 UTC

Light, breezy, change of the season. Aloof
"Maturing sun"- a changing sun/season.
"To bend with apples"- bend is a softer word, it doesn't have a harsh or severe connotation
"Mist, mellow, sweet, swell, budding, clammy, plump, load and bless"- all these words are soothing.

Structure

136446 — 2018-09-26 17:02:00 UTC

The first stanza sets up the pattern of 11 lines in each stanza. It also serves to set up "what" autumn does in a romanticized way so that Keats may take this farther in the following stanzas. Ideas are introduced and concluded with about 2-3 lines each, starting with the sun, then fruit, seeds, and bees. These ideas also flow together to give a sort of natural progression as well as tying them together so that they make a coherent image of fall in the reader's mind. And by doing this, Keats also leads well into the rest of the poem where he uses apostrophe to speak to autumn. There is foreshadowing to a shift in line 10: "Until they think warm days will never cease" showing that there will be a shift and a discussion about how autumn comes out of summer and ultimately into winter.

Tone

josh_gedack — 2018-09-26 17:10:44 UTC

John Keats utilizes lofty and excited diction to exemplify his tone of reverence and awe of nature. He be happy about fall.

136446 — 2018-09-26 17:12:33 UTC

Thanks Class, Very Cool.

1748191 — 2018-09-26 17:14:00 UTC

^{you like jazz?}

136446 — 2018-09-27 18:52:22 UTC