For instance, by the end of “To Autumn”, the process of decay is evident in the “stubble-plains” (Keats, John), the mourning of the gnats, and the dying winds. This stanza is “imbued with a sense of mortality” (Kimball) that results from the melancholic connotation in the words. Similarly, Keats’s poem “Ode to a Nightingale” is laden with negative vocabulary that exemplifies a dejected tone. Such words are especially apparent in stanza three when the speaker reveals “the weariness, the fever, and the fret” (Keats, John) of knowing that one must grow old and die. Through the negative word choice, Keats emphasizes the sadness that comes with the awareness that life, with time, will end in death. Comparatively, “Bright Star” depicts a resigned tone in the last line when the speaker becomes aware the he must “swoon to death” because being immortal is not an option. Keats shifts the tone of “Bright Star” from yearning to be immortal to being resigned in order to convey that one must know that life will move steadily unto death as time
For instance, by the end of “To Autumn”, the process of decay is evident in the “stubble-plains” (Keats, John), the mourning of the gnats, and the dying winds. This stanza is “imbued with a sense of mortality” (Kimball) that results from the melancholic connotation in the words. Similarly, Keats’s poem “Ode to a Nightingale” is laden with negative vocabulary that exemplifies a dejected tone. Such words are especially apparent in stanza three when the speaker reveals “the weariness, the fever, and the fret” (Keats, John) of knowing that one must grow old and die. Through the negative word choice, Keats emphasizes the sadness that comes with the awareness that life, with time, will end in death. Comparatively, “Bright Star” depicts a resigned tone in the last line when the speaker becomes aware the he must “swoon to death” because being immortal is not an option. Keats shifts the tone of “Bright Star” from yearning to be immortal to being resigned in order to convey that one must know that life will move steadily unto death as time