To Autumn
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- Created on: 07-05-18 09:41
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- To Autumn
- John Keats
- 1820
- What Happens?
- Celebrating beauty of the season
- Period of change and transition
- Key Quotations
- 'Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness'
- 'And gathering swallows twitter in the sky'
- Meaning
- Temporality and mutability
- Allegorical meditation on mortality and Keat's illness
- Language
- Personification of autumn
- Sensuality of the language of fecundity
- Auditory references signalling end of autumn
- Cyclic nature of life
- Context
- 2nd Generation Romantic poet
- Keats died aged 25 from TB
- He knew he was dying
- Importance of natural world (Romantic)
- Structure and Form
- 3x11
- Ode
- Regular Rhyme Scheme
- Iambic Pentameter
- Stanzas show passing of time throughout Autumn
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