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English- poetry anthology
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autumn- quote explanations
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Cards (5)
"close bosom-friend of the maturing sun"
sun is
personified
as its getting
older
winter
is coming
sun is no longer
high
and
bright
in the sky
proposed
friendship
"to bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees"
uses
fruit
to represent
life
rich,
vivid
image of the
abundance
of autumn
verb
'bend' conveys apple trees bending over with the
weight
of the apples
as if everything is so
ripe
to the point of
bursting
"thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind"
alliteration
gives
gentle
sound
reflects gentle
beauty
of
autumn
hair
being lifted suggests autumn is
personified
as a woman
could perhaps be as he lost his
mother
when very young- autumn was his
maternal
figure growing up
"where are the songs of spring?"
has a
preference
for autumn
spring is
forgotten
and autumn has its
own
music
consecutive
rhetorical
questions show Keats
scornful
attitude of spring
"and full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn"
lambs
born in
spring
are bigger now
reflects passing of time and
ripeness
of
youth
just before adulthood
onomatopoeic
words represent
sounds
of autumn
even though
winter
is coming, the natural world is still
rich
with life