Ode to Autumn
-John
Keats
John Keats’ Biography
1. John Keats was
born at Moonfields, London in 1795 and
died in 1821.
2. He is one of the
greatest of English Romantic poets.
3. He studied at
Clark’s School at Enfield.
4. He was interested
in Cricket and boxing.
5. He translated
Virgil’s Aeneid.
6. His first poem
‘Lines in Imitation of Spenser’ was published in 1814.
7. His poem
‘Endymion’ was well appreciated by Wordsworth. It was published in 1818.
8. His odes On
Indolence, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, To a Nightingale, On Melancholy and Ode
to Autumn.
9. He has written
Lamia and Hyperion.
10. He was died of
tuberculosis in 1821 at the age of 26.
ODE TO AUTUMN EXPLANATION
STANZA-1
Season of mists
and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brinım'd their clammy cells.
STANZA-2
Who hath not seen
thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies,
while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
STANZA-3
Where are the
songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats moun
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the lig it wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
ODE TO AUTUMN SUMMARY
This poem is
written by John Keats. In this poem John Keats describes the beauty and
characteristics of autumn season. He says that autumn season is good season
because in this season people are happy. They feel very good because this
season is neither hot nor very cool. Wind blows very friendly. In this season
new leaves and fruits grow on the trees. In this season nature looks very
beautiful because there is greenery everywhere. All people feel to work in this
season even the birds also sing. The sun rays of this season make the fruit
fleshy, fat and tasty. In this season nature remains calm and cool.
ODE TO AUTUMN OBJECTIVE QUESTION
1.
‘Ode to Autumn’ consists of ___________.
a)three stanza
b)four stanza
c) five stanza
d) six stanza
2.
John Keats was a ___________ poet.
a) romantic
b)metaphysical
c)people’s
d)modern
3.
‘Ode to Autumn’ is a poem which is related to ___________
a)love
b)society
c)war
d)nature
4.
Swallows twitter in the ___________.
a) water
b)sky
c)house
d)earth
5.
John Keats was born in ___________.
a)1795, England
b)1939, England
c)1985, America
d)1966, India
6.
John Keats died in ___________.
a)1821
b)1822
c)1823
d) 1955
7.
“Ode to Autumn’ is ___________.
a)an epic
b)an elegy
c)an ode
d) ballad
8.
In ‘Ode to Autumn’ Keats deals with ___________ in detail.
a)Spring
b)summer
c)Autumn
d) winter
9.
John Keats was born at ___________, London.
a)Moon fields
b)Camden
c)West Hills
d)New York
10. John Keats studied at ___________
at Enfield.
a)Lincoln’s Inn
b)Clark’s School
c)Cambridge
d)none
11. John Keats was interested in ___________.
a)Hokey
b)football
c)cricket & boxing
d)badminton
12. John Keats is ___________.
a)metaphysical poet
b)romantic poet
c)classical poet
d) classic poet
13. Virgil Aeneid was translated by ___________.
a)Walt Whitman
b)John Keats
c)T.S Eliot
d) John Donne
14. The theme of Autumn is ___________.
a)scarcity
b)abundance
c)fulfillment
d) greatful
15. Who called ‘Ode to Autumn’ Keats
most satisfying of all the odes?
a)Dryden
b)Wordsworth
c)Arthur Rickett
d) W.B. Yeats
16. Lines in imitation of Spenser is
written by ___________.
a)Auden
b)Keats
c)Eliot
d) Donne
17. Lines in imitation of Spenser is
john Keats’s ___________.
a)1st poem
b)2nd poem
c)3rd poem
d)5th poem
18. Lines in imitation of Spenser was
first published in ___________.
a)1814
b)1879
c)1950
d)1850
19. ‘Endymion’, ‘On a Grecian Urn’,
‘To Psyche’ was written by ___________.
a)Lawrence
b)Rupert Brooke
c)John Keats
d) John Donne
20. Endymion was published in ___________.
a)1818
b)1871
c)1817
d) 1712
21. John Keats was died at the age of
___________.
a)26
b)50
c)60
d)50
22. John Keats died because of ___________.
a)Cancer
b)TB
c)Cough
d)none
23. In ___________ new leaves and
fruits come out on trees.
a)summer
b)Autumn
c)spring
d)winter
24. ___________ was a great lover of
Nature.
a)John Keats
b)Kamala Das
c)Walt Whitman
d)John Donne
25. Autumn is season of mellow ___________.
a)fruitfulness
b)no rain
c)no fire
d) no profit
26. Each stanza of ‘Ode To Autumn’
consists ___________.
a)11 lines
b)12 lines
c)13 lines
d)15 lines
27. Who has been personified in “Ode
To Autumn’?
a)Spring
b)Autumn
c)Summer
d) winter
ODE TO AUTUMN QUESTION ANSWER
1.
What happens in autumn?
Ans. In autumn fruit ripen,
crops are harvested, and apple juice is extracted.
2.
How are autumn and summer related to spring?
Ans. Autumn and summer are
related to spring as old age and youth are related to adolescence.
3.
How do the sun and summer help in ripeness of fruits in autumn?
Ans. The sun and summer help
the blossoms turn into fruit, and let the fruit grow. In autumn they reach
their maturity and are filled with flesh and juice.
4.
In what sense does the sun conspire with autumn?
Ans. The sun conspires with
autumn to load plants and trees with abundance of fruit and ripen the fruit to
the core.
5.
Who are depicted as friends in the first two lines?
Ans. Autumn and the sun are
depicted as friends in the first two lines.
6.
New leaves and fruits grow on trees in a particular seasons.
Which is that?
Ans. In autumn fruits and new
leaves appear.
7. ODE TO
AUTUMN LINE EXPLANATION
1.
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness close bosom friend of
the maturing sun.”
Ans. The poet is talking about
autumn. He briefly describes the season and immediately jumps into
personification suggesting that autumn and sun are old friends. It also a
season when many fruits and other crops are harvested, making autumn fruitful.
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