<p> “To Autumn”, by John Keats </p><p>Higher English</p><p>H. O’D. Dunoon Grammar English Department Critical Evaluation - PCQEs</p><p>Here’s our NEXT point (8):</p><p>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”: </p><p>Where can we go to in the poem to back up our point? C Stanza 3, Lines 1-2</p><p>We need a quote from here in order to help us prove our Point Q “the songs of Spring…thy music too”</p><p>Now we need to Evaluate HOW this Quotation proves our Point! E  Rhetorical questions  Metaphor</p><p>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.</p><p>Where can we go to in the poem to back up our point? C Stanza 3, Lines 3-4</p><p>We need a quote from here in order to help us prove our Point Q “barred clouds bloom…soft-dying day…stubble plains”</p><p>Now we need to Evaluate HOW this Quotation proves our Point! E Alliteration Oxymoron Metaphor</p><p>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.</p><p>Where can we go to in the poem to back up our point? C Stanza 3, Lines 5-7</p><p>We need a quote from here in order to help us prove our Point Q “wailful choir…mourn…lives or dies”</p><p>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.</p><p>Where can we go to in the poem to back up our point? C Stanza 3, Lines 8-9</p><p>We need a quote from here in order to help us prove our Point Q “lambs loud bleat…treble soft”</p><p>Now we need to Evaluate HOW this Quotation proves our Point! E Alliteration Onomatopoeia</p><p>Here’s our NEXT point (11): P The poem closes as the shadow of winter approaches.</p><p>Where can we go to in the poem to back up our point? C Stanza 3, Lines 10-11</p><p>We need a quote from here in order to help us prove our Point Q “red-breast whistles…gathering swallows twitter”</p><p>Now we need to Evaluate HOW this Quotation proves our Point! E Repetition Symbolism Onomatopoeia</p>