ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"To Autumn” is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats’s poetry that included Lamia and The Eve of St. Agnes. “To Autumn” is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats’s “1819 odes".

Detailed explanation-2: -John Keats (1795-1821) composed his sensuous ode ‘To Autumn’ in September 1819. He was inspired by his daily walks in and around Winchester.

Detailed explanation-3: -“To Autumn” is an ode-a celebratory address to a person, place or thing. Think of something commonplace that you experience everyday and write an ode commemorating some aspect or quality of it.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1819 John Keats wrote five of his most famous “odes.” These odes included “Ode on a Grecian Urn, ” “Ode on Indolence, ” “Ode on Melancholy, ” “Ode to a Nightingale, ” and “Ode to Psyche.” Critics cite these poems as some of Keats’ best work.

Detailed explanation-5: -"To Autumn” is a poem of three stanzas, each of eleven lines. Like others of Keats’s odes written in 1819, the structure is that of an odal hymn, having three clearly defined sections corresponding to the Classical divisions of strophe, antistrophe, and epode.