ODE TO AUTUMN
Answers (Text-Book Questions)
1.
The expressions in
the first stanza which tells
us of the abundance and ripeness of the
season are “Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, conspiring with him how
to load and bless, the fruit vines
that round the thatch- eaves run, and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.”
2. The expressions which clearly show examples of personification are – “Close bosom friend
of the maturing sun, to bend with
apples the moss’d cottage trees.”
3. Autumn is directly
addressed in the second stanza as
"thee." The speaker considers autumn during harvest time. Again
personified, the speaker thinks of autumn
sitting on a granary floor as the grain is being
harvested. Then the speaker considers autumn asleep, made drowsy by the perfume
of the poppies. Finally, the autumn is watching the apples in a "cyder-press squeezing the juice
from apples." Since the first stanza gives subtle indications of being
early in the day, the second stanza
would be midday or afternoon as autumn has spent "hours by hours"
watching the harvest, a sense of sometime gone
by.
4. The poet contrasts Autumn
with Spring.
5. Fruits, crops, vegetables,
flowers come to ripeness and lamb grows to fullness.
Reference to the
Context
Think not of them... music
too,-
a.
What should we not think of?
Ans: We should
not think of Spring.
b.
What is the music of Autumn
and who or what creates it?
Ans: The music of Autumn includes images, of clouds and harvested fields
at sunset. The small gnats hum, the lambs bleat, the crickets sing, Robins
whistle and swallows sing. All these create the music.
EXTRA QUESTION & ANSWER
Q. What is the central idea of the poem?
Ans: The central idea of the poem is
that time changes like the seasons. The world is always changing and there is
great beauty in this change. Even though the Spring season has its charms,
Autumn is also beautiful in its own way. It is a time of bounty when fruits and
flowers ripen to give human beings a good harvest for the winter.
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