Analysis of Keats' To Autumn's poemTo Autumn is essentially an ode to autumn and the change of seasons. He was apparently inspired by observing nature; its detailed description of natural phenomena pleasantly appeals to the readers' senses. Keats also alludes to a certain unpleasantness associated with autumn, and connects it to a moment of death. However, Keats's association between the stages of autumn and the process of death does not detract from the "ode" effect of the poem. The three-stanza poem seems to create three distinct stages of autumn: growth, harvest, and death. The theme of the first stanza is that fall is a season of flourishing, but the theme that ends the last stanza is that fall is a season of death. However, by using Autumn's stages as a metaphor for the process of death, Keats puts the concept of death in a different, more favorable light. In the first stanza, the “growth” stanza, Keats appeals to our sense of visualization. The reader imagines a country setting, like a chalet with a courtyard full of fruit trees and flowers. In his discussion of the effects of autumn on nature, Keats personifies autumn brilliantly. Personification is when an object or concept is presented in a way that gives life or human characteristics to the idea or concept. Not only does Keats speak of autumn as if there were life (for example, in lines 2 and 3, where he creates a friendship between autumn and the sun, in which they "conspire" to "charge and bless » trees with ripe plants, abundant fruit), but it also gives personality to the Autumn life form. He first defines autumn as a “season of mist and gentle fecundity”. References to both "mist" and "mild...... middle of paper......ch like funerals or recessions. It is appropriate that this change from imagery to musical imagery in the final stanza as it is not only the end of the poem, but also the description of the end of autumn ("While the barred clouds bloom on the dying day "), the use of the word "sweet" in "dying day" is helpful. to remove the sense of death from the “Reaper” and define it as a natural and inevitable event that ends a cycle. The last line “and the gathering of swallows chirp in the sky” gives the reader a definite sense of ending (the swallows prepare). migrate for the winter season). At this point, the poem seems to stop, and this final line creates an effective sense of closure.Bibliography: “To Autumn.” New York: WW Norton, Inc..., 2000.