To Autumn

Incoming cold, being called by those silky balls,

            Interrupting god’s happy message.

            Lovely creatures coming to hibernate

            Leaves far away from their father.

              Arms suffering pain, waiting for spring to be healed.

To Autumn

SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,	5
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,	10
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
2. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;	15
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;	20
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
3. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,	25
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;	30
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Task Two

2) The similarities that I have found in my poem compared To Autumn, is the personification I give to the nature for example “Arms suffering pain” referring to the trees brunches. John Keats also personify some aspects of nature as for example “…the light wind lives or dies” line 29, here he tries to explain how the wind, during the evening, stop blowing or sometimes it continues as a storm is approaching. The metaphors I’ve used related with nature are very similar as when in the poem says “Close bosom-fried of the maturing sun”. I’ve put “Interrupting God’s happy messages  
 

END Task:

1) How does To Autumn differ from the other poems you have studied?

2) I mentioned in a letter to my old pal Reynolds that the stubble fields in autumn looked "warm" to me. How do I communicate a sense of warmth in my poem?

3) How do I use language to reflect the passage of time and a sense of an ever-changing world in this poem?

Answers:

       
       1)  The poem “To Autumn” is different from other poems, that John Keats have wrote, because he always describes the death and sadness, but in this case we appreciate who coloured and bright "she" is.  The reader can feel that the poem is related with the real world as there are so many concrete images.

2) John Keats uses many literary devices to communicate the sense of warmth. An example could be "maturing sun" or "soft-dying day" , in this case he uses visual and tactile images; the word "soft" tries to communicate to us that is not a freezing day,that make you feel a severe pain.

3) In this case the poet uses a specific vocabulary which reflect the passage of time during the day that is why we concluded that the first stanza is describing the morning, the second represent the afternoon and the last one, the evening("soft-dying day"). He also represents the passage of time by the changing of seasons, an example is "For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells".
 

Ideas discussed in class:

• There is a high quantity of nature´s description.(Trees,insects,etc)

• Autumn is personified as a women.
• The description of a day in autumn: Morning, afternoon and evening
• Tone: Amvibalence as it has mixed feelings towards this season