Ode to autumn
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 06:11:06
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 5 pages (1410 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 5 pages (1410 words)
The Composition of "To Autumn"
Keats wrote "To Autumn" after enjoying a lovely autumn day; he described his experience in a letter to his friend Reynolds:
"How beautiful the season is now--How fine the air. A temperate sharpness about it. Really, without joking, chaste weather--Dian skies--I never lik'd stubble fields so much as now--Aye better than the chilly green of the spring. Somehow a stubble plain looks warm--in the same way that some pictures look …
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…twined: poetic form of entwined or twisted.
Line 8, gleaner: a person who gathers what the reapers have left in a field.
Line 10, cider-press: a machine that squeezes apples to make cider.
Stanza III
Line 3, barred clouds: thin, hoizontal clouds which resemble bars or strips.
Line 4, stubble: the dried stumps of wheat and other grains left after reaping.
Line 6, sallows: willows.
borne aloft: carried high.
Line 7, bourn: domain or realm.
Line 8, croft: a small enclosed field.
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