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The third glimpse at Keats's craftsmanship comes through his mastership at yet another poetic form: the ode. In his poem " Ode to Autumn" , Keats praises the season overlooked by most people: Autumn. In the first stanza, the reader gets a vivid picture of the landscape by Keats focusing mainly on visual imagery: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round
(Keats, 1-11) The second stanza starts with the personification of Autumn, embodying her in the daily labors of harvest: "Who Hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?/Thee sitting careless on a granary floor," ( 11,13). In the last four lines, the realization of Autumn in a more physical and active form is seen: " And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep/Steady thy laden head across a brook; / Or by a cyder-press, with a patient look, / Thou watchest the last oozing hours by hours. the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. In the last verse, Keats presents the reader with the symphony of Autum and sheds light on the fact that everything has a purpose in life: " Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?/ think not of them, though hast thy music too,--" (23-24) . Then , Keats follows with words that place the reader in a peaceful and harmonious environment: " Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;/Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,/Drows'd with the fume of poppies, .
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