Question

'Ode to Autumn' is a beautiful poem written by the famous poet John Keats.
 Your teacher will read an excerpt from the poem. Pick phrases
which personify autumn.
Phrases
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Ode to Autumn
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'erbrimmed their clammy cells.
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

Answer 1

(i) Thee sitting carelessly on a granary floor
(ii) Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind
(iii) while thy hook/Spares the next watch
(iv) And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
(v) Steady thy laden head across a brook
(vi) Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.