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Detailed summary of John Keats’s poem  “To Autumn”  along with  all its text lines Stanza 1: 1. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, 2. Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; 3. Conspiring with him how to load and bless 4. With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; 5. To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, 6. And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; 7. To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells 8. With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, 9. And still more, later flowers for the bees, 10. Until they think warm days will never cease, 11. For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells. Summary of Stanza 1: Keats opens the poem by praising autumn as a season full of mists and mellow fruitfulness . Autumn is portrayed as a close companion of the maturing sun , working together to ripen fruits and bless the earth with abundance. The imagery is rich and sensuous: Lines 1–2: Autumn is introduced as gentle and fruitful, workin...

Poem: "On Another's Sorrow" by William Blake 1. Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Summary: Blake begins by asking a heartfelt question: if we see someone suffering, can we truly remain unaffected? He believes that any compassionate person would naturally feel sorrow upon witnessing someone else’s pain. He suggests that it’s human nature to want to comfort others in their grief. 2. Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child, Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Summary: He continues this thought by saying that watching someone cry naturally stirs sorrow in the observer’s heart. No loving father can watch his child cry without feeling emotional pain. Blake emphasizes the deep empathy that binds human beings, especially in close relationships like a parent and child. 3. Can a mother sit and hear, An infant groan, an infant fear? No,...

Thomas Gray wrote the poem The Bard in the year 1757. It is a strong and imaginative poem. The poem is about love for one’s country, the power of poetry, and the gift of seeing the future. The poem takes place in ancient Wales during the time of King Edward I. In the poem, the last Welsh bard, who is both a poet and a prophet, speaks to King Edward. The bard was cursing because King Edward I had conquered Wales and killed many Welsh people, including the bards (poets and prophets) who were the voice of their culture and traditions. The last surviving bard, in Thomas Gray’s poem The Bard , was filled with pain, anger, and pride. He stood on a mountain and cursed King Edward because the king had destroyed his land, killed his fellow poets, and tried to erase Welsh culture. Lines 1–8 “Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait; Though fanned by Conquest’s crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk’s twisted mail, Nor even thy virtues, tyra...