"To Autumn"

John Keats was a romantic poet who lived from 1795 to 1821. He was said to have been drawn to lyric poetry and was inspired by internals conflicts. After reading a few of Keats’s works, I think that he is more reliable. In 1819 he wrote a poem entitled “To Autumn”. I think that the audience is very general. I do not think that this is a particularly deep poem in that it uses very obvious descriptions of a scene. The poem starts off with a description of nature during the autumn months. It is very easy to visualize what is being described and I could easily relate to similar sights and sounds of the season. The description of the vegetation is vivid and gives the poem some movement that gives you a sense of a fast paced scene with specific movements of the surroundings. The sentences in this poem are relatively short and are not hard to recognize. I think that this allows the reader to easily interpret the meaning and understand the description. There is punctuation throughout the poem that break down the ideas, which I believe also allows the reader to put the ideas in his or her head. I do not think that the punctuation contributes to the meaning, but it does allow for the meaning to be more successfully conveyed, even more so to and inexperienced interpreter of poetry. My initial reaction to the poem was a positive visualization of a nice time of the year. It sounded almost regretful in the fact that the season that was so beautifully described had to come to an inevitable end. Although, this was not directly stated.