Sara Valle Marco
Professor Dr. Forés
English Philology
29 November 2007

"The Human Seasons"

FURTHER ANALYSIS

In this poem figures a total of four stanzas, which also correspond with each season of the year:

•  The topic is introduced in the first quatrain: “Four Seasons fill the measure of the year”; and also talks about Spring.

•  The second stanza it's a quatrain which talks about Summer, the season that everyone prefers. It corresponds to a mature age when we achieve experience and when we recall our nice memories.

•  The third quatrain is about Autumn, when people has maturated completely and they begin to be tired. It's also, as I said before, an spiritual stage. At this point we have to assume that we have to let time pass.

•  In the last two verses, comes Winter. We can't escape from it as we can't run away from death. Here, we have a comparison between “mortal nature” and “pale misfeature”.

We can find an anaphora in the lines 3 and 5 “ He has ” ,it's also repeated in the penultimate verse.

We find that the consonants rhyme as well as the vowels, despite that there is no rhyme at all between the verses 5 and 7.

We come to the conclusion by the size of the stanzas that Keats gives the same importance to the first three phases of life (Spring, Summer and Autumn) but for the Winter he only wrote 2 verses, indicating that life it's more significant for him than the last moment, when we die.

"The Human Seasons"