To Autumn Flashcards
(6 cards)
Nature quotes to autumn
“Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness”
“Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun”
“Conspiring with him how to load and bless”
“And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core”
“Plump the hazel shells”
“To set budding more”
“And still more” repetition
“And still more, later flowers for the bees”
“Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind”
“Drows’d with the fume of poppies”
“Where are the songs of Spring? Ay where are they” repetition of rhetorical
“Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn”
“Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies”
“Hedge-crickets sing; and now with the treble soft” cesura
Love quotes to autumn
“To autumn”
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”
“Conspiring with him how to load and bless”
“And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core”
“Plump the hazel shells”
“To set budding more”
“And still more”
“Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they”
Time / death quotes to autumn
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”
“And still more”
“And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core”
“Drows’d with the fume of poppies”
“Spares the swath and all its twined flowers”
“Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours”
“While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day”
“Then in wailful choir the small gnats mourn”
“Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies”
“Hedge crickets sing; and now with treble soft”
Man quotes to autumn
(Work and rest)
“Conspiring with him how to load and bless”
“And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core”
“And still more”
“Who hath bot seen thee oft amid thy store?”
“Thee sitting careless”
“Furrow sound asleep”
“”Or by a cyder press”
“Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours”
Form and structure to autumn
Classical ode = celebrate autumn
Divided into three stanzas with 11 lines
Specific rhyme scheme
Each stanza = focuses on different aspects of autumn
Poet to autumn
John keats