CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Autumn Day is poem where, the poet depicts the onset of Autumn and the last few days of summer and how things are to happen on those days.

Detailed explanation-2: -The setting of the first stanza is characterized by growth and swelling under the influence of the sunlight, and this growth even carries us into the spring and summer, as if time itself were expanding. The second stanza is all about the harvesting process.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poem is in the form of an ode – highlighting and praising the particular time of year. It is the last of what has come to be known as Keats’ six great odes, all written in the same year (1819). In some of his other, equally famous odes, Keats uses ten lines in each stanza but here he uses one extra line.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Keats (1795-1821) composed his sensuous ode ‘To Autumn’ in September 1819. He was inspired by his daily walks in and around Winchester. The season is personified as a series of figures working in the barns and fields, evoking the beauty and luxuriant abundance of the scene.

Detailed explanation-5: -Keats’s attitude is quite optimistic and positive. The overall feeling of a work which is related to tone and mood. In the Ode to autumn, everything here is simple, direct and clear. The poem is pervaded throughout by a mood of serene tranquility.