Ssc Ode To Autumn

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Ode to Autumn 1. “Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun” i) Who is referred to as friend? ii) Why is it called the close bosom friend of the maturing sun? / what do Autumn and sun plan to do secretly? Ans. i) The season Autumn has been referred to as friend. ii) keats describes Autumn as the close bosom friend of the maturing sun the warmth of which is helpful for growth of seasonal fruits and ripening. They jointly plan to load the vines with fruit, ripen the fruits to the core, bend the cottage trees with apples and also to make thousand flowers bloom. 2. “Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun” – Bring out the allusion. Keats has characterized Autumn as a strong reproductive force. Ceres, the goddess of corn and harvest is the mother earth of keats’ poem and Apollo is the sun. The earth is generically female, the sun is generically male. The ‘conspire’ to generate the rich bounty of harvest –time. 3. Comment on the structure of the poem “Ode to Autumn”- like Ode on Melancholy, Ode to Autumn is written in a three – stanza structure with a variable rhyme scheme. In each stanza (11 lines in jambic pentayeter) the first part is made up of the first four lines (like a quatrain from a Shakespearean sonnet) rhyming AB AB and the second part consists of 7 lines rhyming CDE DCCE (1st stanza) and CDECDDE (2nd and 3rd stanza). 4. “And gathering Swallows twitter in the skies” – Bring out the significance of the line. The concluding line of Ode to Autumn brings out a sharp contrast of the sense of “mellow – fruitfulness” and abundance that runs through the poem. The twittering of swallows in the sky for flying to some other place because of the coming cold winter very soon in that place strikes the note of impermanence in a melancholic note. 5. Name the four roles in which the poet identifies Autumn. Autumn is seen sitting carelessly on the field

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