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Keats's To Autumn.(John Keats' Ode to Autumn)(Critical essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20060922
Author:Dilworth, Thomas

I have always wondered why in line 24 of Keat's "To Autumn" the clouds at sunset are "barred." Keats writes that Autumn has its own songs, "While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, / and touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue" (lines 24-25). (1) The adjective "barred" implies that the clouds are long and thin like horizontal bars. It is, however, an odd modifier for clouds and, as merely descriptive, seems underemployed. This is especially so considering that Keats took some trouble over the image, "barred clouds bloom" being a manuscript replacement for "a gold cloud ...

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