To Autumn quotes and links

Question 1

‘Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness!’

Answer 1

• Soft sibilance conveys excitement and joy
• Trochaic foot of exclamation
• Mellifluous alliteration -> sense of harmony

Question 2

‘Conspiring with him’

Answer 2

• Personification of Autumn
• Autumn is a gift to mankind

Negative capability

Question 3

‘More // and still more’

Answer 3

• Enjambement + repetition = endless flowers, Keats in appreciative AWE

‘still’
- Continuous adverb conveys sense of joyous disbelief

Question 4

‘The bees’

‘Never cease’

Answer 4

• Clear rhyming couplet to finalise stanza
• Peace, harmony, completion, beauty
• Enhances regular beauty of poem

Question 5

O’er brimmed their clammy shells’

Answer 5

‘Extra line’
Could -> over brim poem(lol), sense of fullness to season

Could -> Undercut harmony, death / winter is coming. ominous, you cannot be to sure / set in ways / comfortable?

Question 6

‘Like a gleaner thou dost keep’

Answer 6

• Agrarian simile
• Reminds of harvest, collecting of dead, all good things must come to an end,
  changes tone of poem to sad/ time passing

Question 7

‘Where are the songs of spring?’
‘Where are they’

‘Think not of them’

Answer 7

Ubi Sunt Motif
Feature of classic style / elevates poem to EPIC

Evokes nostalgia, where are they that were there before us
Reminds of ephemerality

Dont live in past! CARPE DIEM

Question 8

‘Wailful Choir of small gnats mourn’

Answer 8

Metaphor, funeral for autumn, dread of winter / death

Impact on even the small

Question 9

Link to?

Answer 9

As Imperceptibly as Grief

Question 10

As imperceptibly as grief quotes!

Answer 10

'Imperceptibly /too imperceptible'
'Summer Lapsed away'
'Quietness distilled'
'Twilight long begun'
'Nature spending time with herself'
'Sequestered afternoon'
'Our summer made her light escape'
'Into the beautiful'