Explain the imagery in the poem?   To Autumn  Asked on  2
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#2)  “To Autumn” is rich in imagery, evoking the perceptions of
sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Each stanza highlights
one of the senses. The first stanza especially evokes the senses
of smell and touch. The sharp smell of the early-morning mist,
the mellowness of ripe apples, and the sweet-smelling flowers
attracting bees all work together to tempt the reader into
believing that summer will never end. Nothing appears static in
this stanza; the fruit, the nuts, and the honeycombs swell,
bursting into ripeness, spilling out of their shells. Keats
emphasizes the sense of sight in the second stanza by inviting
the reader to see autumn as harvester, her hair “soft-lifted by
the winnowing wind,” checking, cutting, and gleaning the crops.
The sights evoke a certain lassitude. Autumn moves slowly amid
her stores; she sleeps, “drows’d by the fume of poppies”; idly,
she watches the “last oo