Season Of Autumns By Keatss

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The first stanza is dominated by a vivacious mood and vigorous, tangible imagery – autumn, fitting of the robustness of a young season, is personified as an agent of action. This concept is best illustrated by the diction, most obviously the active verbs that Keats employs (i.e. things that autumn is doing or does) such as “conspiring,” “load,” “bless” (3),“bend,” “fill,” and “swell” (5-7). The lines “...Budding more / and still more” again suggest the overwhelming sensory, for which enjambment is fittingly necessary. The rhythm also serves to emphasize the mood: Keats distinctly departs from the general rhythm of iambic pentameter by way of trochaic inversions in the initial phrases of the first two lines respectively, “Season of mists...” and “Close bosom friend...” (1-2). However, the speaker’s tone, in contrast to the initial mood, is one of melancholy; it comes to light at the stanza’s conclusion, wherein it is suggested that such liveliness may be an illusion: “until they think warm days will never cease, / For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.” (10-11). Thus it seem...

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