To Autumn

Question 1

Point 1 - Shows happy images of autumn and describes the abundance of fruit in autumn

Answer 1

‘mellow fruitfulness’ - showing the abundance of produce in autumn
‘to bend with apples’
‘to swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells’
‘and still more later flowers for the bees’ - showing that

Question 2

Point 2 - He then describes autumn as a women creating images of sleep

Answer 2

‘Drowns with a fume of poppies’ - links to opium suggesting there is all the time in the world
‘sitting careless’ - showing no hurry
‘on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep’ - clear sleep images
‘the last oozing’s hours by hours’ - showing that autumn is coming to an end

Question 3

Point 3 - He describes the passing of time with ideas similar to a funeral

Answer 3

‘the soft-dying day’ - funeral imagery
‘wailful choir’
‘sinking as the light wind lives of dies’ - showing that there is the possibility of death possibly linking to Keats himself
‘gathering swallows twitter in the skies’ - showing leaving

Question 4

Context

Answer 4

Romantic poet
‘To autumn’ inspired is inspired by an autumn walk
He watched his brother die from tuberculosis
He had tuberculosis
Keats was close to leaving the country and this as written before moving

Question 5

Techniques

Answer 5

Personification, funeral imagery