to autumn

• to autumn- almost as if keats is reminiscing on his own life. A toast to autumn or his life
• season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
• close bosom-friend
• and still more, later flowers for the bees
• until they think warm days will never cease
• thou watchest the last oozing hours by hours- watching life go by
• where are the songs of spring? - the idea that nature goes round in circles
• think not of them, thou hast thy music too - dont dwell on the past or what you dont have. acceptance
• the gathering swallows twitter in the skies- metaphor of keats' acceptance of his morality
• keate's was a romantic- he valued nature and appreciated it's power
• Six months after completing To Autumn, he experienced the first signs of the tuberculosis that would end his life.