Ode to autumn

Ode to autumn

1. Smt.S.B. Gardi Department of English. Maharaja Krishankumarsinhji Bhavanagar University. Prepared By: Prinjal Shiyal Nikita Rathod Divya Vaghela Kailas Gohil Ode to Autumn z

2. John Keats An E nglish Romantic poet. Main figure of the second generation of Romantic poets. His works having been publication for only four years of his death. Birth date :- 31 Oct,1795 London Died on :- 23 Feb,1821 (Aged 25)

3. Some important works “Hyperion” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” “La Belle Dame Sans merci” “To Autumn” “On Melancholy” “Ode to Psyche” “Lamia” “Ode to a Nightingale” “On Indolence” “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

4. Introduction “To Autumn” is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats . “To Autumn” is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats’s “1819 Odes”. “To Autumn” after a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening. A little over a year following the publication of “To Autumn”, Keats died in Rome.

5. Summary In this ode Keats's addressing Autumn, describing its abundance and its intimacy with the sun, with whom Autumn ripens fruits and causes the late flowers to bloom. Speaker describes the figure of Autumn as a female goddess. The speaker tells Autumn not to wonder where the songs of spring have gone, but instead to listen to her own music.

6. Some important points about “To Autumn” The poem has three eleven-line stanzas which describe a maturation through the season, from the late maturation of the crops to the harvest and to the last days of autumn when winter is nearing. The imagery is richly achieved through the personification of Autumn, and the description of its beauty, its sights and sounds. He saw on his walk as being like that in a painting.

7. Continue…….. The work has been interpreted as a meditation on death; as an allegory of artistic creation. One of the most anthologized English lyric poems, “To Autumn” has been regarded by critics as one of the most perfect short poems in the English language.

8. Themes “To Autumn” is one of the simplest of Keats's odes. There is nothing confusing or complex in this ode. The season of Autumn, with its fruitfulness, its flowers ,and the song of its swallows gathering for migration.

9. Continue…… The extraordinary achievement of this poem lies in its ability to suggest, explore, and develop a rich abundance of themes without ever ruffling its calm, gentle and lovely description of autumn.

10. Continue…… “When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high- piled books, in charactry , Hold like rich garners the full ripen’d grain….” In this poem, the act of creation is pictured as a kind of self- harvesting: the pen harvests the fields of the brain, and books are filled with the resulting “grain”.

11. Analysis In this poem Keats describes the season of Autumn. T he odes is address to the season. It is the season fruits is ripened on the collaboration with the sun. Autumn loads the vines with grapes. T here are apple trees near the moss growth cottage. The season fills the apple with juice. The sun and The Autumn help the flowers of the summer to continue.

12. Conclusion…….. To Autumn expresses the essence of the season, but it draws no lesson, no over comparison with human life. Keats’s strength, his ability to take the beauty of the present moment, so completely into his heart that it become an eternal possession. For him the poetry of the earth is never dead. Keats's sense of the wholeness of life is nowhere communicated so richly or with such concentration as in this ode.