To Autumn by Keats

1. To Autumn
by
Keats
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By
Beena E S

4. John Keats--31 October 1795 – 23 February
1821.
English Romantic poet
one of the main figures of the second
generation of Romantic poets
His first extant poem, "An Imitation of
Spenser" (1814)
O Solitude--first in print
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes,
Hyperion

5. Odes
1819
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Indolence
Ode on Melancholy
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Psyche
To Autumn

6. To Autumn
composed on 19 September 1819 and
published in 1820
The poem has three eleven-line stanzas
iambic pentameter
abab pattern followed by rhyme scheme of
cdedcce in the first verse and cdecdde in the
second and third stanzas

8. Season of mists and mellow
fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the
maturing sun;

9. Conspiring with him how to load and
bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;

10. To bend with apples the moss'd
cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness
to the core;

11. To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel
shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding
more,

12. And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never
cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their
clammy cells.

13. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy
store?

14. Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

15. Thy hair soft-lifted by the
winnowing wind;

16. Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy
hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:

17. And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;

18. Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

19. Where are the songs of spring?

20. Ay, Where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—

21. While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

22. Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

23. And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly
bourn;

24. Hedge-crickets sing

25. and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from
a garden-croft,

26. And gathering swallows twitter in the
skies.