G. P. Xavier | Analysis of John Keats' Ode To Autumn @gpxavier | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 7 minutes ago.
In his ode To Autumn, addressed to a passing season, Keats uses the beautiful language of sensation to perfectly express the truth of life's transience. Helen Vendler explains the meaning of this magnificent poem, the last and greatest of Keats' odes.

This is the final video in a series on the Odes of John Keats, based on the interpretation by literary critic Helen Vendler in the book of the same name. Watch the others here:
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0:00 Introduction
1:38 The Poem
3:53 Vendler's Analysis
6:46 Major Structural Movements
9:17 Minor Submotions
10:42 Constitutive Trope/s
12:22 Analysis of Stanza I
18:39 Analysis of Stanza II
22:25 Analysis of Stanza III
30:32 Overall Meanings
39:35 Beauty, Truth, and Poetry