this poem, “sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find,” was particularly interesting to me for I relate to its feelings of optimism and accord. In a way it also seems that the second stanza is heavy with sleepiness, with the exception of the last four lines, as displayed in the above quote with words like the “winnowing wind”, “Drows’d”, and “sound asleep”.The four last lines of the second stanza, as I mentioned earlier, describes Autumn in pure action, “Steady thy laden head across a brook; /Or by a cider-press, with patient look,” by bringing out the true active lifestyle of what nature truly is. Again, through his imagination Keats is able to embark upon what he is really seeing. The purpose of the poem becomes clear in the final stanza, and in the warmth of the second line, “Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they? /Think not of them, Thou hast thy music too,” where Keats sheds light on the idea that that everything has a purpose. It would appear that Autumn, the season which robs us of the warmth of summer, where the leaves come tumbling from the trees, the season that prepares the world for a dark and cold winter ahead, has its purpose too. What would spring be without death, light without dark, but indeed it appears that Keats is thinking of life without death. In this poem, Keats is able to focus in on the beauty and splendid ness of autumn in order to demonstrate that everything will change according to the natural cycle of life, and what is generally regarded as bad is also essential to the persistence of life.While Keats used his descriptions of nature in order to demonstrate a point regarding life, Wordsworth steers clear of that route, and uses nature solely for its beauty and for nothing else. For example, Wordsworth uses several settings that are almost like backgrounds to in which to compare the daffodils, “Continuous a...
