To autumn

6. 'to set budding more and still more, later flowers for the bees' to make spring happen again and attract bees.

Their clammy shells- shows that the bees are full of energy

This could also mean that the flowers are full of pollen.

* 'until they think warm days will never cease' the bees are being tricked, they think its wonderful, but then they'll suddenly die.

* Keats died of tuberculosis at 25 (at 25 you're filled with ripeness to the core). He's like the bees, full of vitality and youth but not knowing that he'll die.

Verse 2

* Line 1 means that everyone has seen autumn.

* Store means harvest

* Everything is visual in verse 2

. In a storehouse for grain and a woman(autumn) is sitting on the floor, relaxed with a breeze blowing her hair back. it's a picturesque image. To winnow- to separate the wheat from the chaff.

2. Shows that they're halfway through harvest and autumn is asleep. Autumn is like a worker and has gone to sleep until next autumn. Poppies are used to make a drug called opium. I think that this is the fume that made autumn go to sleep.

3. Gleaner- takes the scraps of the harvest. A woman is walking with a basket of scraps on her head walking across a brook (small stream). Again a picturesque and relaxing image.

4. She's pressing apples to make cider and she's working again. Spending hours as it takes a long time to get the juice out of the apples (oozing hours and hours).

* Autumn is always showed as a woman in all these images.

* She's always just finishing working just like harvest is just finishing in the poem.

Verse 3

* Most poems are written about spring. He imagines that autumn is jealous. He says that autumn has its good points too.

* Shows that there's a beautiful red sunset (rosy hue)

Examples of noise in the 3rd stanza are:-

. 'a whaleful choir of knats' - tiny insects making a buzzing noise. they're sad as summers leaving and disappearing and so they'll soon die. Sallows- willow trees. Sallows (weeping willows) show mourning like the knats. The knats are born in the air and are carried wherever the wind takes them.

2. Lambs bleating gives the impression of luscious green pastures with slow sunsets. Picturesque. Full- grown lambs' alerts us to the idea of death being around the corner. Sheep exist to be killed for their meat.

3. 'hedge- crickets sing' shows again a picturesque little image of things in a field.

4. 'red-breast whistles' shows that winter is around the corner. I think that winter represents death.

5. 'gathering swallows twittering' swallows move to warmer areas when winter comes so this is why they gather. Winter (death) is just around the corner.

Conclusion

* This poem was the last major poem Keats wrote, it was written in 1819 and he died two years later from tuberculosis.

* Keats probably got tuberculosis from his brother Tom.

* One of his parents died of tuberculosis

* Keats trained as a doctor during the early years of his life.

* Its likely he knew that he was going to die.

How is the poem like Keat's life?

* Its an idea of the cruelty of nature

* He was 'full of ripeness to the core' when he died.

* Shows images of death and how some of the animals didn't know they would die. (bees and lambs).

Words related to death in the 3rd verse of the poem

* Soft-dying

* Whaleful

* Mourn

* Sallows

* Dies

Why its to do with Keats life

* It shows anger which relates to his anger that he has the disease.

* Its philosophical. Everything he says in the poem relates to what's happening to him in real life.