1. How is the autumn personified in each if the stanzas ?
2. How is the nature presented in the poem ode to autumn ?
3. Why is the autumn called the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ?
4. What are the autumn and spring conspiring ?
5. Why do the bees think that the warm days will never cease ?
Answers
Answer:
1) Also, the autumn is personified as having hair that is "soft-lifted by the winnowing wind." This is a beautiful personification in that the grains can be seen as hair wisped about by the "winnowing wind" or sifting wind. In the last stanza, the autumn is personified as having her own music.
2) Nature is presented as rich, full, indolent, and beautifully melancholic in this poem celebrating autumn. In stanza 3, the focus turns to the sounds of autumn as evening falls. This is a melancholic time of "soft-dying day" and "rosy hues" as the sun sets, punctuated by the "wailful choir".
3) The speaker refers to Autumn as the "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" because he wishes to honor and compliment the season whose hallmarks some might see as less beautiful than "the songs of spring." On the contrary, this speaker feels that Autumn has its own "music" that is absolutely as lovely as Spring.
4) The Autumn and Spring are conspiring with each other plans to fill the earth with fruits and flowers with the coming of the Spring season.
5) For the bees, perhaps their "warm days will never cease" because those warm days have helped them to produce so much honey. In other words, while the warm days may literally disappear, they will live on in the form of the honey that they have helped the bees to produce.