... 's proper name. "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" Keats then uses a metaphor to name autumn again, this time adding an element of personification by calling the season the maturing sun's "close bosom-friend" and attributing to these friends the capacity of conspiring together. "Conspiring with him ... - harvested grain, a partially harvested field, apples being pressed to make cider - and depicts upon them some action or attribute of personified Autumn. For example, the chaff blowing about in a granary is depicted as Autumn's wind-blown hair. "Drows"d" and "swath"ed" both include...

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... what it is that makes the persona glorify and compliment the season. This is done through a use of linguistic techniques or figurative language, including personification, auditory imagery, rhetorical questions, metaphors, similes and more. The main theme running throughout "Ode To Autumn" is the beauty of the season ( ... season does: Autumn is a "Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun, Conspiring with him", devising ways for the trees, and vines to bear fruit and flowers. The technique used here is personification; autumn is given a human quality of conspiring/scheming. Through this the...

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... one of the greatest American poets of his time, with works that cover themes varying from the reflection of human life situations in, and the personification of nature; to highly personal, personality driven poems. It is his ability to reach through his poems both the ordinary man and also a more ... description of the narrator and the fact that the feelings expressed by the person throughout the poem could pertain to either sex leave this question unresolved. For ease of writing I will refer to the narrator as being male. The theme of isolation and depression is enhanced by the use of l...

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... and who will not "alter when it finds alteration". The following quatrain begins with a declamatory "O no", the narrator makes an almost legalistic argument for the eternal passion of love. The sonnet's major metaphor compares love to a priceless lighthouse that can withstand any storm, or like the Northern star guides ... nature of love being unshakeable throughout time and remains so "ev"n to the edge of doom." or death. "Love's not Time's fool", this personification of Love states that true love is not subject to change in the passage of time, although changes occur in appearance "ros...

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