how far does keats's "ode to autumn" convey the serene acceptance of life (10 no question)
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Language and tone of Ode to Autumn
Fertility
The poem’s language seems to explode with nature’s fecundity. The impression of endless richness is conveyed not only by the profusion of concrete nouns (‘vines’, ‘apples’, ‘trees’, ‘fruit’, ‘gourd’, ‘hazel’, ‘kernel’, ‘flowers’, ‘bees’, ‘granary’, ‘poppies’ etc.) but also by all the active verbs. Monosyllabic verbs such as ‘run’, ‘load’, ‘bless’, ‘blend’, ‘fill’, ‘swell’, ‘plump’ convey much of the season’s energy.
Words such as ‘bosom-friend’ and ‘conspiring’, in their use of personification, suggest a mysterious magic intimacy, a power creating life and wealth everywhere. The adjective ‘plump’ is used as a verb, onomatopoeically seeming to make the hazel shells expand before our eyes. ‘Maturing’ and ‘ripeness’ work together, leading to the hint of sadness, of acceptance of this world’s mutability. Although the bees may think that ‘warm days will never cease’, human consciousness knows that they will. Keats language enacts the process by which nature gathers to a ripeness and reaches a climax in harvest (but will inevitably have to decline)