John Keats - Selected Poems - Revision Notes

John Keats - Selected Poems - Revision Notes
To Autumn
Ode celebrates the perfection of natural beauty.
Language - "Seasons of mist" = sibilance. Poem sensuous like description of Madeline's room in St Agnes. Sense of abundance in Stanza 1, "fill all fruit with ripeness... to swell... and plump...". Personification - "Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind". "Winnowing wind" = Alliteration, assonance, some degree of onomatopeia. "Full grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bown" = assonance.
Themes - Simple. Daily observation & appreciation. Autumn = warmth, abundance. He can celebr…