The Composition of "To Autumn" Keats wrote "To Autumn" after enjoying a lovely autumn day; he described his experience in a letter to his friend Reynolds: "How beautiful the season is now--How fine the air. A temperate sharpness about it. Really, without joking, chaste weather--Dian skies--I never lik'd stubble fields so much as now--Aye better than the chilly green of the spring. Somehow a stubble plain looks warm--in the same way that some pictures look …
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…twined: poetic form of entwined or twisted. Line 8, gleaner: a person who gathers what the reapers have left in a field. Line 10, cider-press: a machine that squeezes apples to make cider. Stanza III Line 3, barred clouds: thin, hoizontal clouds which resemble bars or strips. Line 4, stubble: the dried stumps of wheat and other grains left after reaping. Line 6, sallows: willows. borne aloft: carried high. Line 7, bourn: domain or realm. Line 8, croft: a small enclosed field.