“To Autumn” The theme of John Keats’ poem, “To Autumn”, is that change is both natural and beautiful. The speaker in the poem acknowledges that time passes by, but also asserts that this change usually yields something new and better than what came before. The poem praises the glories of the fall season by using almost every type of imagery to both charm and appeal to the reader. Each of the poem’s three stanzas represents the evolving of two different types of change. One type of change shown in the poem is the change of periods in a day. The first stanza in “To Autumn” stands for morning time.
This is shown in line 2, which mentions the rising, or .”.. maturing sun;” (2).
The reader learns of the passing of time in the second stanza, which mentions .”.. oozing’s hours by hours.” (22).
Finally, the third stanza represents the switch from afternoon to evening. This change is established through such phrases as .”.. soft-dying day,” (25) or .”.. rosy hue;” (26), which gives examples of dusk, when the sun goes down. Page 2 The second type of change is the advancement of the season of autumn.
The first stanza of the poem describes the beauty of early autumn, when farmers are harvesting their crops, which they have cultivated during the spring and summer. It is a “Season of… mellow fruitfulness,” (1).
Gustatory imagery is used to imply the ripeness and freshness of the crops such as .”.. hazel shells/With a sweet kernel;” (7-8).
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The second of the stanzas features the middle of the fall season as its subject.
It uses both organic and olfactory imagery, “Drowsed with the fume of poppies,” (17), and visual imagery, .”.. by a cider-press, with a patient look,” (21) to convey certain feelings that occur within people during autumn. The poem’s third stanza describes the end of autumn and the coming of winter when everything seems to be dying. One of its lines, “And full-grown lambs loud bleat… .” (30).
For one thing, it uses auditory imagery.
In addition, lambs are usually born in the spring so by the end of autumn they have developed into sheep, therefore signifying the passage of time. “To Autumn” shows the positive side of change through the splendor of each period of the fall season. The poem shows that autumn holds a different, yet equally charming beauty than the other seasons throughout the year.
