Snaith// To Autumn

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To Autumn, John Keats

'Close bosom-friend of the maturing son'

-Autumn works with summer to create wonderfull things.

-Suggests time is quickly passing by.

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To Autumn, John Keats

'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'

-Autumn is calm.

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To Autumn, John Keats

'Conspiring with him to lead and bless'

-Suggests that autumn is quiet and secretive.

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To Autumn, John Keats

'and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core'

-Autumn is the best season, when the year is at its peak.

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To Autumn, John Keats

'And still more, later flowers for the bees'

-Autumn is tricking nature into thinking that summer hasn't ended.

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To Autumn, John Keats

'Thee sitting careless on a granary floor'

-Here autumn has been personified, suggesting making the neccessary changes are easy for autumn.

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To Autumn, John Keats

'Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while they hook'

-Implies that autumn in intoxicating and overwhelming.

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To Autumn, John Keats

'Thou watches the last oozings hours by hours'

-Autumn has the time to observe all the changes is has made to the nature surrounding us.

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To Autumn, John Keas

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To Autumn, John Keats

'Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?'

-Due to all the amazing changes autumn has made, spring has been forgotten. Autumn is very powerfull.

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To Autumn, John Keats

'While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day'

'Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn'

'Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies'

-Language is associated with death. Mood changes to sadness.

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To Autumn, John Keats

'and gathering swallows twitter in the skies'

-Keats is ready for death and to 'move on' just as swollows gather to move on to warmer climates.

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