English - Poetry Chapter 4: Ode to Autumn Long Answer Questions
Long Answer Questions
Question 1. What is the central idea of the poem?
Answer: The poet John Keats has written this poem ’Ode to Autumn’ which presents a very natural and beautiful picture of autumn. He narrated about the season of different kinds that happen in the world. All seasons are of different kinds and different nature. Every people like a different season. Summer brings hot and sweetest fruit. Some people like Autumn because it is a good season and people can do easily their work in this season.
Question 2. What does Keats mean by the following:
‘T was here we loved in summer day and greener.’
Answer: Keats was a poet of Nature. He found happiness, solace, and peace of mind in everything of Nature. He loved the wind that blows in summer and helps the fruits to ripe and grows. He calls it a favorable wind. He finds the greenery in autumn very impressive and attractive. It gives him a positive aspect to him.
Question 3. Does the poet convey his love for nature through such lines as given above? If yes give examples.
Answer: Yes, the poet conveys his love of nature through these lines. “For summer has ‘O’er brimmed their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever Seeks abroad may find.” The poet shows his love through nature. It always helps him to convey love.
Question 4. What does the poet say about the music of autumn? Do you like music?
Answer: The poet says about the music of autumn that when it starts to sing the beautiful birds like Nightingale and cuckoo sing in a very beautiful and melodious voice. It makes everyone happy to their life. It makes a person perfect and the trees, when it listens to it, come out and grows rapidly. Yes, I like the music of autumn.
Question 5. Write in short the summary of the poem, “Ode to Autumn”.
Answer: The Odes of John Keats are his masterpieces. The present Ode is his last one. Here the poet has described the beauty and characteristics of Autumn, in a series of memorable pictures. He reveals the principle of beauty in nature in the autumn through this poem. New leaves and fruits come out on trees. There is neither heat of summer nor bitter coldness of winter. Nature looks beautiful everywhere. The wind blows friendly. Birds sing in a fine-tune. Everybody is happy and^their working efficiency increases in this season. Their health has developed sufficiently. The autumn with the assistance of the sun helps in the ripeness of fruits and shaping them flashy as well as tasteful. Nature remains calnymd cool in this pleasant season everywhere. Thus the poem illustrates the vegetable world, then after human activity and in the last the world of animals, birds and insects. The poem also imparts the message that human life also changes in due course like seasons.
