WorksheetsTo Autumn
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 17mins
Which of the following is true? Pick all that apply.
The first stanza is a celebration and it suggests that autumn begins in a rich and calm way.
In the second stanza, Keats speaks directly to autumn and makes the suggestion that autumn is in no rush to move on.
The final stanza shows regret. Keats tries to acknowledge all the mistakes he made in life.
The last line could suggest that Keats is ready for death and to ‘move on’ just as the ‘swallows’ are ‘gathering’ to move on to warmer climates.
Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"
Tiring and exhausting
Boring and irrelevant
calming and reassuring
Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines"
secretive and misleading
thankful and grateful
calming and reassuring
Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease"
relentless and deceptfully reassuring
overwhelming and unwelcome
cunning and intelligent
Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor"
impermanence
oblivious inertia
accusation of complacency
Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Drows’d with the fume of poppies"
Prophetic fantasy
intoxicated by overwhelming beauty
regretful dreams
Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Thou watchest the last oozing hours by hours."
soft language of acceptance
numbing / healing
regretful dreams
Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "Where are the songs of Spring? Ay where are they?"
nostalgia / longing
semantic field of decay
possessive, childish language
Which word(s) best helps to explain the following: "And gathering swallows twitter in the skies." Pick two.
mourning / grieving
semantic field of decay
impermanence / transition
subtle reference to the damaging effects of social media
Which of the following words best help to explain this poem. Pick 3.
awe
subordination
transition
acceptance
Exploitation
Write two or three sentences (a thesis statement) answering the following question. Use your best vocabulary:
How does Keats present the effects of time in his poem To Autumn?
Which of the following is true? Pick 2.
Keats was a romantic poet and wrote a lot about nature and the natural world.
Keats wasa recluse and rarely left his room.
Keats was cycnical about relationships and love.
Keats died at the age of 25, he was worried that he would leave no lasting impression on the world
