The Test , by Angelica Gibbs

“To Autumn”, by John Keats

Higher English

H. O’D. Dunoon Grammar English Department Critical Evaluation - PCQEs

Here’s our NEXT point (8):

P The third and final stanza acknowledges Autumn’s status amongst other, more celebrated seasons, and will develop the auditory details referenced by “thy music too”:

Where can we go to in the poem to back up our point? C Stanza 3, Lines 1-2

We need a quote from here in order to help us prove our Point Q “the songs of Spring…thy music too”

Now we need to Evaluate HOW this Quotation proves our Point! E  Rhetorical questions  Metaphor

Spring in line 1 has the same function as Summer in stanza I; they represent process, the flux of time. Here’s our NEXT point (9): P The third and final stanza continues to celebrate Autumn’s qualities, but acknowledges the inevitable decay that follows the process of growth and fulfilment; the day, like the season, is dying, but it is presented in favourable terms.

We need a quote from here in order to help us prove our Point Q “barred clouds bloom…soft-dying day…stubble plains”

Now we need to Evaluate HOW this Quotation proves our Point! E Alliteration Oxymoron Metaphor

Here’s our NEXT point (10): P Keats provides the first moments of explicit sadness – contrasted with the beauty in the initial stages of this stanza - as the poem acknowledges the inevitability of the continuum that is transition within natural world.

We need a quote from here in order to help us prove our Point Q “wailful choir…mourn…lives or dies”

Now we need to Evaluate HOW this Quotation proves our Point! E Personification Juxtaposition Here’s our NEXT point (11): P Keats continues to evoke a landscape that is dying, and his auditory and visual images again create the connections with previous aspects of the annual cycle of the natural world.

We need a quote from here in order to help us prove our Point Q “lambs loud bleat…treble soft”

Now we need to Evaluate HOW this Quotation proves our Point! E Alliteration Onomatopoeia

Here’s our NEXT point (11): P The poem closes as the shadow of winter approaches.

We need a quote from here in order to help us prove our Point Q “red-breast whistles…gathering swallows twitter”

Now we need to Evaluate HOW this Quotation proves our Point! E Repetition Symbolism Onomatopoeia