Need some help! Need to trace the different sense images that Keats uses in this poem- "To Autumn".

Ode To Autumn
by: John Keats

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 mossed cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness 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-brimmed their clammy cell.

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-reaped 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.

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 mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

I've done this one, but am smack bang in the middle of my own essay - I did find this half written essay (one of those you have to pay for which is a total sham) which may help? You may have already seen it, but if you're anything like me I gather as much info together and blend it into one essay that should get a decent mark! If I have time I shall find out my old notes. (Although looking at the date you first mailed I may be too late)? Regards.


......serenity of autumn as they suggest a certain softness created by the placid nature of the text. Keats tells us there is a 'winnowing wind.' The alliteration of the 'w' suggests the sound of the wind, yet the breeze is gentle and kind, like the season, and all things are treated with care. For example the hair is 'soft lifted', telling us that everything is treated with delicacy and nothing and nobody will be harmed. Keats's use of the poppy in the poem seems to be associated with opion, suggesting the 'half reap'd furrow' to be in a more profound state of sleep, emphasising the mellow and peaceful atmosphere.
The long vowels and quiet consonants of the stanza create a gentle, almost magical picture as the peacefulness is so extreme. For example, the soft sound of the 's' in 'spares' and 'swath' supports this idea of the text suggesting the sounds of the season.

Keats makes reference to the 'twined flowers', suggesting all associates of the season to work in complete harmony with each other. This idea is emphasised by the adjective twined' as is suggests even the flowers to have a unity with each other, reinforcing the kind nature of the season autumn.

Everything, through this stanza appears to be particularly static. For example, there is a reaper asleep, a figure 'sitting careless' and a gleaner 'steadies her laden.'

Throughout the stanza there is no sense of urgency, emphasised by the reference to a 'patient look.' The penultimate line possesses a certain musical quality, created through the style of the text. The number of times 's' is used within the line can be perceived as a suggestion of the sound of the apple juice flowing. The final line reinforces the idea that time is moving almost un-perceptively, emphasised by the repetition of 'hours.' The adjective 'oozings', hints at a never ending peacefulness, suggested by the long vowel.

The third stanza is set in the day and opens with the double rhetorical question, 'Where are the songs of spring? Aye, where are they?' The music of autumn is indicated by Keats's reference to the 'songs of spring.' The long vowels within the second rhetorical question gives a hint of nostalgia and melancholy, and this is a key note in the beginning of the stanza.......

>sense images

I admit I didn't bother to read the long-winded one from the paymeforit site, but there are five senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. It should be rather simple to work one's way through the Autumn stanzas, looking for such images, watchest the last oozings, for example.