Kubavat Kishan submitted a paper on John Keats' romantic poem "Ode to Autumn" for his second semester English literature course at M.K. Bhavnagar University in 2014-15. The poem personifies Autumn as a harvester completing the seasonal tasks of reaping, gleaning and cider-pressing. It depicts the ripening of fruits and the sounds of birds, lambs and insects in the evening. The poem symbolizes Autumn as a representation of maturity and the close of the natural year.

1. Name : Kubavat Kishan
Roll No.: 11
Semester : 2nd
Paper no : 5
PG Enrollment No:14101021
Paper name : Romantic literature
Year: 2014-15
Submitted to: Department of English
M. K. Bhavnagar University

2. • John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23
February 1821) was an English
Romantic poet.
• He was one of the key figures in
the second generation of the
Romantic movement
• The poetry of Keats is
characterized by sensual imagery.
• Keats as the supreme lover of
beauty says, “ A thing of beauty is
joy forever ”.
John Keats

3. What is ode ?
A lyric poem, typically one in
the from of an address to a
particular subject, written in
varied or irregular metre.

4. John Keats Odes

6. Ode To Autumn
•In both its form and descriptive
surface, "to autumn” is one of
the simplistic of Keats ode
•In “to autumn” the speakers
experience of beauty refers to
earlier ode
•Artistic creation
•The development the speaker
so strongly resisted in
‘indolence” is at lost complete

7. 1st stanza- describing the autumn as a
fruitful season
 Autumn is a season of ripe
fruitfulness.
 It is the time of the ripening
of grapes, apples, gourds,
hazelnuts etc.
 It is the also the time when
the bees suck the sweetness
from “later flowers” and
make honey.
 Thus autumn is pictured in
the stanza as bringing all the
fruits of earth to maturity in
readiness for harvesting.

8. 2nd stanza- Comparing autumn to
“someone” (personification)
• Autumn is seen persona
of reaper, a winnower, a
gleaner, and cider-presser.
• Reaping, winnowing ,
gleaning, cider-pressing
are all operations
connected with the
harvest and are therefore
carried on during autumn.

9. • Autumn is depicted firstly as a harvester sitting
carelessly in the field during a winnowing
operation.
• Secondly, as a tired reaper fallen asleep in the
very midst of reaping.
• Thirdly as a gleaner walking homewards with a
load on the head .
• Fourthly as a cider presser watching intently the
apple juice following out of the cider press.

10. 3rd stanza—Autumn is a symbol of
maturity of beings
 Autumn is not altogether devoid of music.
 If spring has its songs, autumn too has its
sounds and songs.
 In the evening, when the crimson light of
the setting sun falls upon the stubble
fields, a chorus of natural sounds is heard.
 The gents utter their mournful sounds; the
full grown lambs bleat loudly; the hedge-
cricket chirp; the robin’s high and delicate
notes are heard; and the swallows twitter
in the sky.
 In this last stanza the close of the year is
associated with sunset and night- fall.

11. Implication of “Autumn” in John
Keats’ Romantic poem
-Alfonso Liu

12. 1. Which topic interests you more: Art or
Nature? How are they different?
2. Do you get emotionally involved in the
things you like? Do you get emotionally
involved in Art and/or Nature?
3. Do you agree that truth and beauty are
all you need to know?

13. Thank you