Ode to Autumn

John Keats’s poetry was greatly influenced by the Romantic Period and the Romantics, appreciation and exaggeration of nature’s beauty. Keats’s believed that the deepest meaning of life lay in the appreciation of material beauty, and that this beauty could be found in many different objects. He expresses this idea through the form of poetry. ‘To Autumn’, portrays the ideas of the abundance and fruitfulness of the season, the theme of mortality, and that Keats’s creativity will be immortalised through his poetry. This creates a sensory ode in a lyrical form, glorifying Autumn.
In John Keats’s ode, ‘To Autumn’, the theme of abundance and fruitfulness on Autumn is portrayed. During the Romanticism period, the Romantics had a keen appreciation of nature’s beauty. As Keats’s believed that the deepest meaning of life lay in the appreciation of material beauty, as his poems convey a strong evocation of human senses experiencing what he perceived, as the sensuous wonder of the physical world. In stanza one of the ode, Keats’s uses personification in the lines, ‘Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun, Conspiring with him to load and bless.’ The use of personification shows the fruitfulness of season due to the close friendship between Autumn and sun. Keats’s uses a hyperbole, in the lines, ‘To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.’ This refers to the richness of Autumn and creates a visual image of creativity pouring out of the tree. This shows the abundance of Autumn which is written in an Ode form, glorifying Autumn,
The Romantic Poet, ‘John Keats’s portrays the idea of impermanence in his ode, ‘To Autumn’. In his previous odes, Keats’s struggles with the effect of time and the mortality of creativity, however whilst writing, ‘To Autumn’, Keats’s life was coming to an end, and through the ode, he learns to accept the idea of mortality and its impermanence. In Stanza three, Keats’s uses the rhetorical question, ‘Where are