To Autumn Essay -- To Autumn John Keats English Literature Essays

To declineI find this to be a profoundly enjoyable verse urinate. I take delight in it, eventhough I recognize in it some inadequacy. But, frankly, I like it bestof all(a) of Keatss subject and know it by memory. It all comes togethernicely and has an exceptionally fine ending.I do not discern anyparticular interpretative problems with this work. The poem is alyrical evocation of autumn with a complex tonal blend which bothcelebrates autumns fullness and wistfully regrets its sense of lossand ending. at that place is nothing in the poem which induces me to seek outa deeper level of meaning, since I believe that poem operates, for themost part, at a very oral level.I respond well to the mimeticdepiction of autumn in the work (even though it is a different motley ofautumn than the one I am familiar with) and I am generally inclined toenjoy seasonal verse and its various potentialities for lyricalexpression. I dont find anything in the poem that gets to me in amoral or philosoph ical sense. I am not in any sense, moved by thepoem as some kind of--as many scholars claim it is--meditation ondeath. I simply dont see that here. It would seem that my pleasure istaken primarily in the aesthetic qualities of the work. However, thereis something wrong with the work on this score the three differentstanzas dont match and fit one another as well as they might thereis some retardation in the work, especially as one moves from onestanza to the next. These faults, however, are not so serious as tomar the excellence of the work.The general plan of To Autumn isrelatively simple. As a whole, the poem is a lyrical description ofautumn in terms of certain objects, processes, and events associatedwith that season, or... ...a beautiful poem. There are,of course, flaws in the work--loose ends, slips in structuralcoherence--and these have been noted and, we hope, accounted for. Butthe remainder of the evidence points to that kind of extraordinaryinterrelatedness of elements wh ich is above all the hallmark of abeautiful thing. To be sure, To Autumn is not a very great poemeven without the flaws, it is a relatively modest achievement thevery subtle complexity and mundanity of a Shakespearean sonnet,the dynamically brilliant beauty of Miltonic verse, the dazzlingprecision of Pope are certainly not in evidence here. Even at bottom thescope of Keatss entire work, if To Autumn lacks some of the moreproblematic discontinuities and lapses to be found in his very bestwritings, it also lacks some of the felicities of aesthetic form to befound in these same works.