The main theme in "Ode to Autumn" is the beauty of Autumn. The author concentrates on giving Autumn a personal touch and feel to allow readers to be able to see all the wonders of Autumn. Autumn is often described as dark, har

In the third lot of stanzas, the Wind is noted to cause significant changes to the Mediterranean. In the Summer the Mediterranean is clear, flat and lifeless. In the Autumn, the West wind brings the Mediterranean to life, making it dangerous and menacing, "Thou didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline stream." The author writers of how powerful the West Wind is that is it capable of taking calm peaceful areas and turning them into rough territories that fear the Wind, "The sapless foliage of the ocean know Thy voice, and suddenly grow grey with fear."

In the next group of stanzas there is a change in the narrative, the poet is now writing in first person narrative using personal pronouns, "If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear." The use of this is to create an intimate atmosphere so that the reader may lose themselves in a world where they can visualise the power and supremacy they'd have if they were like the wind. The poet compares himself to the West Wind and admires its passion, and power and wishes that it be possible for him t have some of that power. "If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength." The writer also admires the West Wind's freedom and how it can not be controlled by anyone or anything, "Than thou, O uncontrollable!"

In the first stanza the poet presents to the reader a new concept of Autumn by telling the writer what the Autumn does. Autumn is one with the sun, "conspiring with him", devising ways for the trees, and vines to bear fruit and flowers. The technique used here is personification. Autumn is given a human quality of conspiring, scheming through which the reader can relate to its behaviour and hence, understand it. The reader is introduced to Autumn as a season which brings life and hope, "filling fruit with ripeness" and "flowers for the bees".

The author makes an allusion when referring to "some fierce Maenad," who is a brutal and ferocious woman in mythology. This allows the audience to be able to image the strength of this wind because it is comparing it to something which the audience may have some knowledge of. Again, the allusion stress the power of the wind, which becomes an image of the wind and Autumn, entwined carefully into the minds of the audience.

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Approximate Word count = 2104
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)