Analysis Of The Poem To Autumn

In the poem, “To Autumn”, Keats signifies the notion of life and death. He uses sequences of autumn to symbolize the undeniable truth of death. In the poem, each stanza contains its own individual moment of autumn. The first stanza emphasizes the season’s beginning stage; the stanza contains various figurative languages and rhetorical devices in which formulate how fruits are abundant and how crops are being grown. The abundant and plentitude supply suggest that autumn is a season of development. Keats uses series of imagery to illustrate how plants and fruits are being grown during autumn. For example, Keats mentions, “To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees”. Keats has suggests that apples are being grown excessively in which their weights …show more content…
The device is meant to personify the season of autumn. Keats personifies autumn as a goddess; the rhetorical question, “who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store”, suggests that Keats is looking for autumn. Furthermore, the second stanza describes another part of autumn where farmers harvest their crops that they grew. Keats has use personification of autumn to exemplify the activities that happen during this part of autumn. For example, line three of the second stanza, “Thee sitting careless on a granary floor”, indicates the end of harvesting. In this time period, farmers are finished harvesting their crops and fruits. Additionally, line ten and eleven of the stanza, “Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, thou watches the last oozing, hours by hours”, also suggest that the season of autumn contains the end of the harvesting process. Furthermore, “the last oozing, hours by hours”, acts as a transitional statement to the third stanza. Keats wants us to understand that autumn is slowing down and winter is approaching. All in all, the second stanza marks the point in which farmers are now carefree that the harvesting process is …show more content…
However, Keats expresses a more doubtful tone with his question. “Where are the songs of Spring, Ay, where are they?” Keats mentions “the songs” to emphasizes the beauty of the season. The fact that Keats asks the same question, questioning the location of autumn suggests that he is becoming doubtful weather or not the beauty of autumn will ever come back. In this stanza, Keats uses series of imagery to state the last clinging moment of sunset. His uses of imagery consist of animal sounds. For example, “And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly horn”, the lambs’ bleat is meant to signify the beauty of sunset and the dying-day. Furthermore, “fully-grown lambs” suggest that the lamb has been raised through out the season of autumn and are now fully-grown at the end of autumn. Altogether, Keats has use animals’ noises and sounds to illustrate the beauty within the ending of