Question

who is the close friend of Autumn in keats poem "To Autumn"?​

Answer 1

The answer to this question is in the first line of the poem: Autumn the 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' is the bosom-friend of the maturing sun. Autumn and the sun have been personified in these lines.

Answer 2

The close friend of autumn in Keats's poem "To Autumn" is the sun.

• John Keats' ode "To Autumn" is an apostrophe, implying that it addresses someone or something who is either missing or just rhetorical. In this example, the speaker addresses the fall season, as the title suggests: "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun." (ll.1-2)

• The image depicts autumn's and the sun's strong relationship, which has aided crop growth; together, they have "conspired" to generate the rich harvest described in the rest of the first line.

• Keats initiates the personification of autumn, which will continue throughout the poem, by developing a human interaction between inanimate phenomena. Indeed, his use of apostrophe lends humanity to the season, which is heightened in succeeding stanzas when we imagine him sitting on the floor amidst the grain, dozing in a meadow, and engaged in different harvest-time duties. Autumn is portrayed in these movements as an industrious character who can nevertheless pause to admire the beauty around him, such as the "winnowing breeze" (l.15) or the "fume of poppies." (l.17).  This may be seen in the second line's "maturing" sun - fall and his closest companion are no longer young.
• Although fall is not the season of new life indicated by spring, the poem emphasizes the worth of its beauty. This remark is probably more heartbreaking because this was one of the last poems Keats composed before succumbing to illness. Even though he is nearing the end of his life, the poem expresses the beauty and richness that may still be found in maturity and endings.