" The subject of this poem is compared to a "gleaner" who "keep[s] steady thy laden head across a brook" and can be found both "by a cider press, with patient look" and "sitting careless on a (*) granary floor.
Harold Bloom's The Visionary Company highlights the similarities in the portrayal of natural death in the third stanza of this poem to Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight." The subject of this poem is compared to a "gleaner" who "keep[s] steady thy laden head across a brook" and can be found both "by a cider press, with patient look" and "sitting careless on a (*) granary floor." The speaker of this poem rhetorically inquires, "Where are the songs of Spring?" claiming that the subject should "think not of them." Its subject is described as a "close bosom-friend of the maturing sun" which conspires to "load and bless with fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run." For 10 points, name this John Keats poem addressed to a season "of mists and mellow fruitfulness."
Harold Bloom's The Visionary Company highlights the similarities in the portrayal of natural death in the third stanza of this poem to Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight.
"To Autumn"