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Keats's "To Autumn".(19th-century poet John Keats)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20010322
Author:HARRISON, THOMAS C.

What John Keats's poem "To Autumn" is about has been much discussed. The reading that I usually give the poem in classes is that of a progression--the first stanza a depiction of the autumn harvest, the second an address to three personifications of autumn, and the third a confrontation with the end of the year, perhaps an acceptance of death. Hartman's ideological reading of the poem attempts to establish a place for it in poetic tradition. More recent readings have explored the interplay of speakers in the poem (Gaillard) and the influences of Shakespeare (Flesch) and Spenser ...

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