To Autumn

Poetry | John Keats

Describe the Musical Image of Autumn and Explain How It Touches Human Senses. 

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Describe the musical image of Autumn and explain how it touches human senses John Keats - praises the autumn season in his ode To Autumn written in Keats vividly paints a picture of the beauty and bounty of this season through this poem In the final stanza he describes the sound we hear in autumn in our natural surroundings praising it as autumn s song music Keats lively portrayal of autumn s song appeals to our sense of hearing and sight Autumn s Music In the final stanza Keats shows that autumn has its own unique music Autumn s music includes the mourn of the gnats an insect like a wailful choir When dusk falls these small insects hum in a sorrowful rhythmic way Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn The sound of full-grown lambs bleating from the hills and hedge-crickets singing from the bushes is also

the music of autumn These sounds appeal to our sense of hearing as well as sight Keats description makes the reader feel that they are standing on a landscape at dusk during autumn and absorbing the nature around them as night arrives Keats also introduces the red-breast a bird softly whistling from a garden and the twitter of gathering swallows bird Keats writes The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft And gathering swallows twitter in the skies In short Keats imagery in the poem gives the readers a sensation of hearing the music of autumn as well as witnessing it

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