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So though autumn is thought to be an ugly season, a season of mist and cold, Keats finds in it as much beauty as in spring, because it is as real (i.e. To Keats “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” Autumn is the part of the revolving cycle of seasons and as such it is truth. It illustrates his concept of beauty, his sensuousness, his Hellenism and his verbal magic. The Ode to Autumn is a representative poem of Keats. He is fully satisfied with the joy of the present moment. “Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.” Keats surrenders completely to the beauties of autumn. “Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?” But it is immediately silenced: The old romantic regret raises its head in the line: The enjoyment of autumnal beauty is here disturbed by no romantic longing, no aspiration for the ideal existence, no looking before and after, and no pining for what is not, no foreboding of winter, no regret for the spring that is gone and no prophetic thought of other springs to follow. It breathes the spirit of happy contentment and joyous serenity which we hardly see in Keats’s work. ![]() It gives us a vivid description of an English autumn, with all the warmth and richness of the season. ![]() The Ode is the most impersonal of all the poems of Keats, for he is, in this Ode, merely an exquisitely recording medium.
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