BS EnglishELL-102: Introduction to Literary Studies

To Autumn

Season of mists and fruitfulness,
Close of the maturing sun;
with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the run;
To bend with apples the cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the ;
To swell the , and the shells
With a sweet ; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never ,
For summer has their .

Who hath not seen thee amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the wind;
Or on a half-reap'd sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy
Spares the next and all its flowers:
And sometimes like a thou dost keep
Steady thy head across a ;
Or by a , with patient look,
Thou watchest the last hours by hours.

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While clouds the soft-dying day,
And touch the with rosy ;
Then in a wailful the small mourn
Among the river ,
Or as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly ;
sing; and now with soft
The whistles from a garden-;
And gathering s twitter in the skies.

Who wrote this poem?
1. William Blake
2. John Keats
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Lord Byron
The poet died of Tuberculosis at the age of ______________.
1. 24
2. 25
3. 26
4. 27
How many stanzas make up the poem?
1. 1
2. 3
3. 11
4. 33
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
1. ABAB CDECDCD
2. ABAB CDECDEC
3. ABAB CDEDCCE
4. ABAB CDEDCDE
Which literary movement did the poet belong to?
1. Classicism
2. Transcedentalism
3. Romanticism
4. Imagism
In this poem, the poet addresses _____________.
1. the readers
2. Autumn
3. Nature
4. his beloved
Which two characters work together for the exuberance, ripeness, and abundance of fruits and flowers?
1. the wind and the sun
2. Autumn and the sun
3. Spring and rain
4. Autumn and the wind
Why do the bees think summer days will never end?
1. Because of the sweet kernel.
2. Because of the abundance of honey.
3. Because of the exuberance of flowers.
4. Because of the continuous sunshine.
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find thee sitting careless on a granary floor. What literary device is used in this quotation?
1. simile
2. hyperbole
3. allusion
4. personification
Autumn is found having sound asleep because of __________________________.
1. the fumes of poppies
2. the sound of the winnowing wind
3. the sweet smell of flowers
4. the tiresome cydar-press work
In the second stanza, Autumn is also compared to a gleaner. What does gleaner mean?
1. Someone who travels through different countries mostly on foot.
2. someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters.
3. Someone who charges money to carry people across rivers and brooks in his boat.
4. Someone who travels around with his canvas in order to paint landscapes from the countryside.
Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? This line contains two examples of which literary device?
1. rhetorical questions
2. academic questions
3. hypothetical questions
4. metaphorical questions
In this poem, Autumn has been personified as ___________.
1. a close friend of the sun
2. a reaper
3. a musician
4. All of the above
The images used in the last stanza appeal to the sense of __________.
1. sight
2. hearing
3. touch
4. All of the above
Which auditory image is NOT presented in the last stanza?
1. crickets singing
2. bees buzzing
3. lambs bleating
4. birds whistling
Which metaphor does the poet use to highlight the differences between Spring and Autumn?
1. death
2. time
3. music
4. love
Which of the following progressions are found in three stanzas of the poem?
1. the season turning from early-autumn to mid-autumn to heralding of winter
2. the day turning from morning to afternoon and finally to dusk
3. the senses turning from tactile to visual to auditory
4. All of the above
As the poem progresses, the mood of the poem gradually shifts from ___________________.
1. celebratory to melancholic to lethargic
2. lethargic to celebratory to melancholic
3. melancholic to lethargic to celebratory
4. celebratory to lethargic to meloncholic
"gathering swallows twitter in the skies" subtly hints that _______________________.
1. nightfall is approaching because in the evening swallows gather in flocks to return to their nests at night.
2. winter is approaching because in late autumn swallows gather to migrate to warmer climes.
3. storm is approaching because swallows gather and twitter when they sense a storm developing at a distance.
4. Both A & B
Why are the gnats mourning in a wailful choir?
1. Because of the clouds being barred.
2. Because of the soft-dying day.
3. Because of the dying wind.
4. Because of the sinking lambs.

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BS English
ELL-102: Introduction to Literary Studies

To Autumn