This document provides an overview of the English Romantic poet John Keats and his ode "To Autumn". It discusses Keats' life and some of his important works. It then analyzes the themes and imagery within "To Autumn", describing how the poem personifies Autumn and richly depicts the sights and sounds of the falling season through three stanzas. The document also notes how the poem has been interpreted as a meditation on death or artistic creation and is regarded as one of the most perfect short poems in English.

1. Smt.S.B. Gardi Department of English.
Maharaja Krishankumarsinhji Bhavanagar
University.
Prepared By: Prinjal Shiyal
Nikita Rathod
Divya Vaghela
Kailas Gohil
Ode to Autumn
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2. John Keats
 An English Romantic
poet.
 Main figure of the
second generation of
Romantic poets.
His works having been
publication for only four
years of his death.
 Birth date :- 31
Oct,1795 London
Died on :- 23 Feb,1821
(Aged 25)

3. Some important works
 “Hyperion”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“La Belle Dame Sans merci”
“To Autumn”
“On Melancholy”
“Ode to Psyche”
“Lamia”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“On Indolence”
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

4. Introduction
 “To Autumn” is a poem by English Romantic
poet John Keats .
 “To Autumn” is the final work in a group of
poems known as Keats’s “1819 Odes”.
 “To Autumn” after a walk near Winchester
one autumnal evening.
 A little over a year following the publication
of “To Autumn”, Keats died in Rome.

5. Summary
• In this ode Keats's addressing Autumn,
describing its abundance and its intimacy with
the sun, with whom Autumn ripens fruits and
causes the late flowers to bloom.
• Speaker describes the figure of Autumn as a
female goddess.
• The speaker tells Autumn not to wonder
where the songs of spring have gone, but
instead to listen to her own music.

6. Some important points about “To
Autumn”
 The poem has three eleven-line stanzas which
describe a maturation through the season, from
the late maturation of the crops to the harvest
and to the last days of autumn when winter is
nearing.
 The imagery is richly achieved through the
personification of Autumn, and the description of
its beauty, its sights and sounds.
• He saw on his walk as being like that in a
painting.

7. Continue……..
• The work has been interpreted as a
meditation on death; as an allegory of artistic
creation.
• One of the most anthologized English lyric
poems, “To Autumn” has been regarded by
critics as one of the most perfect short poems
in the English language.

8. Themes
 “To Autumn” is one
of the simplest of
Keats's odes.
 There is nothing
confusing or complex in
this ode.
 The season of
Autumn, with its
fruitfulness, its flowers
,and the song of its
swallows gathering for
migration.

9. Continue……
 The extraordinary achievement of this poem
lies in its ability to suggest, explore, and
develop a rich abundance of themes without
ever ruffling its calm, gentle and lovely
description of autumn.

10. Continue……
 “When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high- piled books, in charactry,
Hold like rich garners the full ripen’d grain….”
 In this poem, the act of creation is pictured
as a kind of self- harvesting: the pen harvests
the fields of the brain, and books are filled
with the resulting “grain”.

11. Analysis
 In this poem Keats describes the season of
Autumn.
 The odes is address to the season.
 It is the season fruits is ripened on the
collaboration with the sun.
 Autumn loads the vines with grapes.
 There are apple trees near the moss growth
cottage.
 The season fills the apple with juice.
 The sun and The Autumn help the flowers of the
summer to continue.

12. Conclusion……..
 To Autumn expresses the essence of the season,
but it draws no lesson, no over comparison with
human life.
 Keats’s strength, his ability to take the beauty of
the present moment, so completely into his heart
that it become an eternal possession.
 For him the poetry of the earth is never dead.
 Keats's sense of the wholeness of life is nowhere
communicated so richly or with such
concentration as in this ode.