Ode to Autumn Explanations

Stanza 1:

SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel
shells
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run; And still more, later flowers for the bees,

To bend with apples the moss’ d Until they think warm days will never
cottage-trees, cease,

For Summer has o’ er-brimm’ d their

Explanation:

This stanza has been extracted from the poem "Ode to Autumn" by the English poet John
Keats. Through this stanza, the poet explains how the Autumn blesses us with various
fruits and flowers for the bees with the sun as his friend.

At first, the poet signified autumn as the season associated with mists and a general
sense of calm abundance. He identified autumn as a pre-winter season where mists start
to fall and glorified it by the abundance of soft and sweet fruits grown in the season of
Autumn. Moreover, autumn is an intimate friend of the sun, whose heat and light helps all
these fruits and vegetables grow. Autumn works closely with the sun to make lots of
fruits that grow on the vines that wrap around the roof edges of the farmhouses. Autumn
works to make so much fruit grow that it weighs down the branches of the mossy apple
trees that grow outside the farmhouses. Together, autumn and the sun make every fruit
completely ripe and sweet. Autumn makes gourds swell and hazel shells grow fat with a
sweet nut inside. It makes the flowers grow new buds and keep growing more, and when
these buds bloom bees gather the flowers' pollen. Those bees think its warmth will last
forever, because summer brought so many flowers and so much pollen that the beehives
are now overflowing with honey. The Poet praised Autumn for its blessings of fruits on us.
Stanza 2:

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Spares the next swath and all its twined
flowers:
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
keep
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or on a half-reap’ d furrow sound asleep,
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Drows’ d with the fume of poppies, while
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by
thy hook
hours

Explanation:

This stanza has been extracted from the poem "Ode to Autumn" by the English poet John
Keats. Through this stanza, the poet describes the period after the harvest when most of
the hard work has already been accomplished.

The poet starts the stanza by a retheorical question that is there anyone who hasn't seen
where autumn has kept his crops. Any person who finds themselves wandering about is
likely to find autumn sitting lazily on the floor of the building where grain is stored and
they are going to notice his hair being lifted by a light wind that separates strands of hair
in the same way a harvester might separate the components of a grain of wheat. Anyone
might also find him asleep in the fields on an incompletely harvested crop row, fatigued
because of the sleep-inducing aroma of the poppies. In that case, his scythe, which he
had been using to cut the crops, would be cast to the side and it would just be lying there
and therefore the next section of the twisted flowers would be saved from being cut.
Sometimes, Autumn is like the agricultural laborer who picks up loose cuttings from the
fields after the harvest. Like the laborer, who has to be observant. He watches the stream
of the river with his full, heavy head of fruit and leaves. Other times he patiently watches
the machine that juices the apples for cider, noting how the juice and pulp slowly ooze out
of the machine over the course of many hours.

Stanza 3:
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
are they?
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly
Think not of them, thou hast thy music bourn;
too,—
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying soft
day,
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats
mourn

Among the river sallows, borne aloft

Explanation:

This stanza has been extracted from the poem "Ode to Autumn" by the English poet John
Keats. Through this stanza, the poet reflects a complete senerio of melodious
environment generated by Autumn.

At the beginning, the poet starts with a retheorical asking where is the music that
characterizes spring. The poet then advises autumn not to think about the spring and its
typical music because he has his own music. The background for autumn's music is a
scene in which beautiful, shadowed clouds expand in the evening sky and filter the
sunlight such that it casts pink upon the fields, which have been harvested. Autumn's
music includes gnats, which hum mournfully among the willows that grow along the
riverbanks and which rise and fall according to the strength of the wind. It includes
mature, fully grown lambs that make their baah sound from the fence of their hilly
enclosure. It includes crickets singing in the bushes and a red-breasted bird that softly
whistles from a small garden. And lastly, it includes the growing flock of swallows, which
rise and sing together against the darkening sky.

Altogether, they create such a melody that no human can ever compensate.