To Autumn

Which of the following is true? Pick all that apply.

• The first stanza is a celebration and it suggests that autumn begins in a rich and calm way.

• In the second stanza, Keats speaks directly to autumn and makes the suggestion that autumn is in no rush to move on.

• The final stanza shows regret. Keats tries to acknowledge all the mistakes he made in life.

• The last line could suggest that Keats is ready for death and to ‘move on’ just as the ‘swallows’ are ‘gathering’ to move on to warmer climates.

Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"

• Tiring and exhausting

• Boring and irrelevant

• calming and reassuring

Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines"

• secretive and misleading

• thankful and grateful

• calming and reassuring

Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease"

• relentless and deceptfully reassuring

• overwhelming and unwelcome

• cunning and intelligent

Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor"

• impermanence

• oblivious inertia

• accusation of complacency

Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Drows’d with the fume of poppies"

• Prophetic fantasy

• intoxicated by overwhelming beauty

• regretful dreams

Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Thou watchest the last oozing hours by hours."

• soft language of acceptance

• numbing / healing

• regretful dreams

Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Where are the songs of Spring? Ay where are they?"

• nostalgia / longing

• semantic field of decay

• possessive, childish language

Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "And gathering swallows twitter in the skies." Pick two.

• mourning / grieving

• semantic field of decay

• impermanence / transition

• subtle reference to the damaging effects of social media

Which of the following words best help to explain this poem. Pick 3.

• awe

• subordination

• transition

• acceptance

• Exploitation