To Autumn Flashcards
1
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Keats context:
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- brother just died
- 1795-1821- died age 25
- lost his parents at the age of 8
- plagued with health problems
- died of tuberculosis
- influenced by Wordsworth
- values all emotion
2
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who is To Autumn written by?
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- John Keats
3
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poem context:
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- written 1819
- published 1820
- poems are reflective and imaginative, containing notes of joy but also melancholy
4
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structure:
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- three stanzas:
beginning Autumn- touch
middle Autumn- sight
late Autumn- sound - an ode- a lyric poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, in this case, Autumn
- rich, complex rhyme scheme fruitful season of Autumn
5
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themes in To Autumn:
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- nature
- age
- life to death
- passing of time
6
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“Season of…..”
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- “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!”
- warm alliteration
- soft, gentle, calm
- 1st stanza
7
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“fill all…..”
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- “fill all fruit with ripeness”
- fricative alliteration
- sounds plump and juicy- lushcious
- 1st stanza
8
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“load” “bless” “bend” “fill” “swell” “plump” “budding”
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- dense description
- suggests heaviness richness
- semantic field
- first stanza
9
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adjectives and adverbs showing that things are tired and drowsy in the second stanza:
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“careless”
“soft-lifted”
“sound”
“patient”
“oozing”
10
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“Thy hair…..”
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- “Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind”
- alliteration- Autumnal breeze
- personification- smooth, opulent, comely
- second stanza
11
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“Where are…”
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- “Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?”
- repetition
- sadness at passing of time
- 3rd stanza
12
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“barred…”
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- “barred clouds”
- patchy, like clouds across the sky, still light breaks through
- oxymoron
- 3rd stanza
13
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images of music in the third stanza:
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- “choir”
- “bleat”
- “treble”
- “whistles”
- “twitter”
- hold hope
- still valuable even though it is dying out
- oxymoron in language
