To Autumn 《秋颂》英文赏析

To Autumn

John Keats

To

Autumn

is

an

immortal

poem.

I

will

try

to

write

some

of

my

feelings after reading

To Autumn

and analyze it. I believe this will not be

an easy work.

To Autumn

deals with the presence of nature and how autumn itself

is more significant than any of the other seasons. What most called my

attention was the infinite number of images you can imagine by reading it.

It seems that john Keats describes what he imagine and while reading it, I

can create the picture in my mind, of what he is seeing.

To

Autumn

has

three

stanzas.

Each

of

three

stanzas

shows

us

different time of a day and different time of autumn. I thought this poem

exhibited two kinds of progression of time. First is the time of day. The

first stanza is the morning with the

when the hot sun is beating down and makes everyone drowsy. The third

is at sunset with the

This poem also shows a progression in the season of autumn itself. The

first stanza is early autumn because

the maturing of summer’s bounty.

The second is mid-autumn, because it's

time

for

harvest.

The

third

is

late

autumn

because

the

birds

are

headed

south for winter.

In

stanza

1,

Keats

describes

autumn

with

a

series

of

specific,