To Autumn

TASK 1

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Autumn leaves are like yellow powerful flames

Which can melt down the greatest glacier on earth

2

Autumn leaves are dancing to the wind

Though they are not ready to leave

3

Autumn leaves fall to the ground peacefully

Are now crisp and crunchy

Where little animals scramble laughingly 

TASK 2

In the poem "To Autumn" there is an anthitesis in the words "lives" and "dies" and an oxymoron in the words "clouds bloom". In our poem the words "flames" and "glacier" are also an anthitesis since their meaning is opposite. 

In the poem "to Autumn" there is a reference to animals in "full-grown lamps" and we can relate it to the "little animals" we incorporated in our last poem.

"Though they are not ready to leave" in the second poem, reflects the idea that autumn is going to end someday and the leaves are going to fall to the ground, but not yet. This concept is also portrayed in Keat's poem in the words "soft-dying day" and "last oozings hours..".

The idea of movement portrayed in out poem in the word "dacing" is also present in the poem "To Autumn" in the "winnowing wind" 

In our poems nature was used frequently as it was one of the main chareacteristics of romanticism, words as: "leaves", "glacier", "eartyh" and "wind". There are also many images in Keat's poetry related to nature as "maturing sun", "fruit", "apples", "granary floor" and "river".

Auditory images are also present in our poems in the words "crisp" and "crunchy" and in Keats' poetry is present in the phrase "Hedge-crickets sing".

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HOW DOES “TO AUTUMN” DIFFER FROM THE OTHER POEMS YOU HAVE STUDIED?

To autumn doesn’t have any feelings towards another human, as in “La Belle dame san Merci” In this poem the interaction is towards nature and its beauty, the beauty of Autumn. Also the poem isn’t a narrative story, it just describes what is seen. Otherwise the desire of escaping from reality to imagination isn’t present as in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, the poem is presented in the real world.  Also the passing of time is shown in the poem, as the progression of autumn is described. For last Keats makes interpretations of death and blood, while in this poem there are positive feelings, such as the colour of leaves, it is like a celebration, but later its also a lamenting because of the death that Autumn brings.

HOW DO I COMMUNICATE A SENSE OF WARMTH IN MY POEM?

In the first stanza we can see lots of imageries related with warmth. First “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun” shows very specifically the sense of heat as the word “sun” is present, as the sun is the principal medium that transmit heat and warmth to everybody and specially fruits and plants, which the cause of their maturity and fertility starts because of the sun. Also in “Until they think warm days will never cease, For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells” the words “warmth” and “summer” directly convey the sense of heat and warmness.  

In the third stanza the imagery "And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue" conveys warmth too. The word “rosy” suggest a feeling of warmth, as the colour is strong and impose a sense heat.

HOW DO I USE LANGUAJE TO REFLECT THE PASSAGE OF TIME AND A SENSE OF AN EVER CHANGING WORLD IN THIS POEM? 

Time is what is most represented in the poem. Keats describes the season as a cycle that every season is going to last. Is about starts and endings. It describes the passing of time. This can be perfectly portrayed when the description of the ending of summer is described in the first stanza, and later the star of autumn commence. The fact that the progression of autumn is described also suggest a feeling that as time goes by autumn someday is going to finish, and spring is going to start, and everything will be growing again.