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诗歌朗诵及鉴赏——John Keats’ To Autumn 1.John Keats 简介 2.To Autumn 朗诵 3.To Autumn 赏析 4.中国有关秋的诗歌欣赏 contents About John Keats John Keats who?lived only twenty-five years and four months (1795-1821), yet his poetic achievement is extraordinary.? Keats’s poetry describes the beauty of the natural world and art as the vehicle for his poetic imagination. His skill with poetic imagery and sound reproduces this sensuous experience for his reader. Keats’s poetry evolves over his brief career from this love of nature and art into a deep compassion for humanity. He gave voice to the spirit of Romanticism in literature when he wrote, “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.” Reading Questions: 1.As we read the poem, notice how the season of autumn progresses with each stanza. Do you see signs of progression in each stanza? 2.How would you describe the personification of Autumn? How does it change as the poem progresses? 3.What are your feelings when you finish the poem? Of peace? Conflict? Irony? In what ways does the poem evoke your own memories of the season of autumn?  To Autumnl  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 oer-brimmed their clammy cells In stanza 1, Keats describes autumn with a series of specific, concrete, and vivid images. The stanza begins with autumn at the peak of fulfillment and continues with an initial autumn and the sun load and bless by ripening the fruit. But the apples become so numerous that their weight bends the trees; the gourds swell, and the ha