I chose this poem originally because Autumn is my favorite time of year, but as I read I am struck by how Keats captures the tangibility of the season and can 't help but wonder if it isn 't his favorite time of year also. Keats seems to have created a human persona for the term by using phrases like 'bosom-friend "and "hair soft lifted...".
While perusing each stanza, I have the feeling that I am walking through Autumn. It 's as if the language Keats uses is drawing me onward in a journey through the period and that while I am there I am meeting an old friend. The old fashioned diction increases this feeling of being part of an older time and the use of idioms such as "winnowing wind" make the text sound almost whimsical.
Written in 1819, …show more content…
Individualism in Romanticism varies from The Enlightenment in its leap towards exploring the emotional, veering away from set structure and prose as it delves into the sentiment that can be garnered from the language. This certainly holds true in Keats ' poem. However this poem almost blends the Romantic and the Enlightenment eras by evoking emotion but also embracing the realities of life which is a strong theme from the previous age of reason. "Keats blends living and dying, the pleasant and the unpleasant, because they are inextricably one; he accepts the reality of the mixed nature of the world." (To Autumn, …show more content…
Apart from its obvious theme surrounding nature it may be that this text has some deeper meaning. There is some discussion among researchers as to whether this composition has a a more political leaning than previously thought. A research professor in the United Kingdom has found and engraving in a book, that Keats used, that was linked to a banker who was buying up all the farm land at that time. The question has arisen " was Keats writing about contented laborers or discontented laborers?" (Professor Richard Marggraf Turley, 2012). They suggest that Keats was actually very "plugged in" and was truly apprised of the exploitation that he was looking at when writing of the corn
While perusing each stanza, I have the feeling that I am walking through Autumn. It 's as if the language Keats uses is drawing me onward in a journey through the period and that while I am there I am meeting an old friend. The old fashioned diction increases this feeling of being part of an older time and the use of idioms such as "winnowing wind" make the text sound almost whimsical.
Written in 1819, …show more content…
Individualism in Romanticism varies from The Enlightenment in its leap towards exploring the emotional, veering away from set structure and prose as it delves into the sentiment that can be garnered from the language. This certainly holds true in Keats ' poem. However this poem almost blends the Romantic and the Enlightenment eras by evoking emotion but also embracing the realities of life which is a strong theme from the previous age of reason. "Keats blends living and dying, the pleasant and the unpleasant, because they are inextricably one; he accepts the reality of the mixed nature of the world." (To Autumn, …show more content…
Apart from its obvious theme surrounding nature it may be that this text has some deeper meaning. There is some discussion among researchers as to whether this composition has a a more political leaning than previously thought. A research professor in the United Kingdom has found and engraving in a book, that Keats used, that was linked to a banker who was buying up all the farm land at that time. The question has arisen " was Keats writing about contented laborers or discontented laborers?" (Professor Richard Marggraf Turley, 2012). They suggest that Keats was actually very "plugged in" and was truly apprised of the exploitation that he was looking at when writing of the corn