Keats wrote 'To Autumn' directly after abandoning 'The Fall of Hyperion', during September of 1819. It is among the last of his poems and it is often regarded as the most achieved of his odes. 'To Autumn' is more abundant than at first glance. It didn't touch me like 'Ode to Psyche', but it left me with an equally pleasant feeling of harmony and purpose. Keats once said about Byron 'He describes what he sees - …
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…season which robs us of summer's warmth, which tears down the leaves from the trees, which prepares the world for the coming of dark winter, has its purpose too. What would spring be without autumn, waking without repose, light without dark, indeed life without death? 'To Autumn' demonstrates that everything will change with the natural circular motion of everything. And that which is generally regarded as bad is also essential to the persistence of life.