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a) Study the given picture. To which stanza does it relate? Give the description in the boxes in your own words.

a) __________________________________


b) __________________________________


c) __________________________________


The following picture is related to the “First” stanza of the poem.

a) The picture shows the time of an autumn season as it is full of chilling weather and fruitfulness. The sun bright throughout the day and blossom the flowers and ripens the fruits in the village. It describes the structure of village cottages and its surroundings. In earlier times such cottages are being called thatched as their walls and roofs are made up of animal fodders like straw, reeds and similar materials.


b) The vines also are known as any creeping plant which has layers that are spread all over the surface of the ground and even on roofs of cottages. The picture shows the wide vines of crops consisting of fruits being spread on the roof of the thatched cottages. After ripening, fruits seem to bend down due to their weight towards the ground and waiting for the farmer to get plucked on.


c) The seeds that are being fallen from the harvested crops are spread on the ground in the hope of growing during the next coming season. The bees are very happy to get the advantages of the sticky nectar from the flowers that are in bloom.


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In stanza 2 from lines 27-33, what are the images being evoked? Which of your senses do these lines stimulate?

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Read lines 27-33. Complete the following table:

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The paragraph below is a critical appreciation of the poem. Choose the correct word(s) from those given in the box and fill in the blanks suitability.



flowers personification first cutting lambs


__________________by __________________ has been termed by many critics as the __________________ poem because it gives the reader a complete picture of the __________________ and __________________of autumn.


The first stanza is full of beautiful and vivid __________________ of the season. There exists a close friendship between Autumn and the __________________. During autumn both are __________________ how to 'load and bless' plants, vines and trees with __________________and __________________. All the descriptions in stanza 1 build up to give us an image of __________________.


In the __________________ stanza, the poet describes autumn as a_____________figure of speech used here is __________________. Most of the images are those of a figure in a static position or in arrested motion. The poet shifts his view in this stanza beyond the 'cottage trees' of the __________________ stanza to the granary. Various activities connected with __________________are mentioned such as winnowing, ___________, __________________and __________________.


The final stanza begins with a disturbing and wistful __________________ but it is __________________ quickly. The poet now gives us the images of __________________ plains and __________________ clouds at the __________________ of an autumn day. There are several striking sound images in the stanza such as the __________________of gnats, the __________________ of __________________, the __________________ of __________________, the __________________ of the__________________and the __________________ of __________________.

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You have read the poem 'Ode To Autumn', studied it closely and found how Keats uses various visual, tactile (touch), auditory (sound) images to create a complete picture of the season. Now write to a friend abroad who has never experienced an Indian summer or an Indian monsoon.