...imagination. In "To Autumn," for instance, stanzas I and 11 are engorged with "pleasant smotherings": Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend...load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to...

...this context in mind, the opening lines start to resonate in unusual and, I think, intriguing ways: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Close bosom-friend...load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run . . . The verb 'to conspire', from the Latin conspicare, literally means 'to breath...

...Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. John Hayward (1929). 3 Season of mists and mellow fruit fulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring...With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run. JOHN KEATS, (1795-1821) British poet. "To Autumn," st. 1 (1820). In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,...

...sensuous but precise words can be further exemplified from the same poem, where autumn is seen as: Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring...load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to...

...a romantic ode by John Keats (1795-1821), who wrote it at AUTUMN' the age of twenty-four: To Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend...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,...

...sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie, The grass below - above the vaulted sky. (ix) Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend...With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; 5 To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell...

...[Haydonl' ... Other spirits there are standing apart Upon the forehead of the age to come. 5410 'To Autumn' sekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw....months on a good compliment. 11964 Each man must for 5411 'To Autumn' Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, bome aloft...

...Press, 1963. Ende, Stuart A. Keats and the Sublime. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. To Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend...load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to...

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...evoke the capacity of the season and sun to yield an abundance of fruits for the benefit of humanity: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend...load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to...