Get off your high horse
This parent died after falling of a horse
John Keats' father
"the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him"
Personification
Keats attended this school
Kings College, London
John Keats died from this illness
Tuberculosis
Inspiration for writing "To Autumn"
His daily walks around Winchester during the fall
This parent died of Tuberculosis
John Keats' mother
"Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;"
Alliteration
Age he was pulled from school
age 15
This is John Keats' date of birth
October 31st, 1795
Stage of life when he wrote "To Autumn"
In his dying days
Keats' age when his mother died
Age 14
"Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?"
Rhetorical question
Reason for Keats being pulled out of school
To work an apprenticeship as an apothecary surgeon
John Keats' birthplace
London
Keats' tone when he wrote "To Autumn"
Praise, appreciative, sentimental
Keats' age when his father died
Age 9
"While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;"
Imagery
Leigh Hunt
Date of John Keats' death
February 23rd, 1821
This is the poem's main purpose
To remember how beautiful nature is during autumn, to look at the details in life.
Number of siblings Keats had
3
"And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;"
Simile
The two poets he met at a literary circle
Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth
Cause of contracting Tuberculosis
By caring for his brother who also had Tuberculosis
Rank compared to his other poems
"To Autumn" is his most famous poem