An analysis of "To Autumn"

“To Autumn”

The theme of John Keats’ poem, “To Autumn”, is that change is both natural and beautiful. The speaker in the poem acknowledges that time passes by, but also asserts that this change usually yields something new and better than what came before. The poem praises the glories of the fall season by using almost every type of imagery to both charm and appeal to the reader.
Each of the poem’s three stanzas represents the evolving of two different types of change. One type of change shown in the poem is the change of periods in a day. The first stanza in “To Autumn” stands for morning time. This is shown in line 2, which mentions the rising, or “...maturing sun;” (2). The reader learns of t...