To autumn - Keats

• What is the context?

  • About inevitability of change
  • Romantic poet
  • Ode
  • Wrote it knowing he was unwell
• Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness
• To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
• Drows'd with the fume of poppies
• Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours
• Full grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn
• And gathering swallows twitter in the skies