ODE TO AUTUMN

ODE

• A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; /Conspiring with him how to load and bless /With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; /To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, /
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; /To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells / With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, /And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cell

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

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

ODE TO AUTUMN

• It describes autumn in a positive way
• It is an ode because it addresses a subject, autumn

ALLITERATION

• Is a repeated speech sound in sequence of words
• Example: “While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day”

STRESSED AND UNSTRESSED BEATS

ALLUSION

• An express that calls something to mind without explicitly mentioning it; a reference to something
• Example: Calling someone a “Scrooge” alludes to Scrooge from A Christmas Carol