Cards (7)

  • What does the title suggest about the poems form?
    The title suggests that this poem is an ode kind of lyric poem that is meant to be sung or sung in praise of a specific person or thing, and in this case, Autumn
  • What quotes create a celebratory tone?
    “ Mist and mellow fruitfulness!” alliterative sentence
    “ bosom-friend”
    ” bless”
    ” sweet”
    ” flowers”
    ” warm days”
  • what quotes create a semantic field of abundance?
    “ fruitfulness”
    “ all fruit with ripeness to the core”
    ”o’erbrimmed their clammy shells” alliteration
    “ to bend with apples” so heavy that the tree is bendin
  • what does John Keats do throughout this poem to autumn?
    He personifies autumn as a close friend
  • “ close bosom friend” suggest how man and nature have an almost symbiotic relationship relationship
  • John Keats praises autumn through the line “ until they think warm days will never cease, / For summer has o’erbrimmed their clammy cells” as he describes autumn through personification as being generous.
  • what is the first line of the second stanza and why is it significant?
    “ who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?”
    it is a rhetorical question, suggesting that autumn is an excellent helper during the harvest