Year taken: 2012-2013
Professor: Nellie Vázquez
Class: INGL3002
University: University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus
Grace H. Rodríguez Cruz
Professor Nellie
Vázquez
ENGLISH 3002
March 13th
2013
Analysis
on John Keats’ “To Autumn”
Keats begins describing the effects of the autumn
season stating the close relation with the sun and the chilly atmosphere to
where there are not many fruits to grow. (Season of
mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun)
By the time he finishes the first stanza we already have a painted image to how
autumn looks and feels like. To stimulate even more our imagination, he places
a goddess who lies in the wild floors of nature. (Who
hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor). The beauty of this deity is
well made along with Keats’ comfort to her saying not to worry of the songs of
spring, for her own are just as beautiful (Where are
the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music
too).
This
beautiful embrace of late year time is another ode to the fascination of themes
like death or decay. Keats always had a certain fear of his early death, in
this poem he embraces the autumn of life, which is the last moments of our
existence, before winter (death) comes around. In this poem, it seems like if
he finally admits death as a normal process of life, making peace with it. The
nature of our physical environment and our mental state of mind create harmony
with one another while Keats involves a deity and the divine content to the
mix. He blends in the perfect recipe for an organic poem in the romantic
period.
Source: Greenblatt, Stephen, M. H. Abrams, Carol
T. Christ, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Jahan Ramazani, Catherine Robson, Jon
Stallworthy, and Jack Stillinger. The
Norton Anthology of English Literature. 8th
ed. Vol. 2. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. Print.
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