Autumn's Treat or Trick
A New Historical Analysis of Keats's To Autumn
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John Keats, Halloween treat or trick, autumn, New Historical analysis, goodness of poetry, romantic poet, evil of medicine, dresserAbstract
This study aimed to illuminate Keats's psyche about the juxtaposition of being a poet living in the zenith and ecstasy of romanticism or an assistant surgeon enduring the nadir and melancholy of materialism. This was quite vivid in his poem To Autumn, where he perceived poetry in his life as a treat eternally sweetened his existence as poet, meanwhile, his daily insights infinitely portrayed medicine as a trick that soured his life to extinction. To attain these aims, the poem "To Autumn" was analyzed via the new historicism theory, which had the role of the magnifying glass that traced and underlined the abstract and tangible things, as they are the autumn season's treats that delighted Keats's goodness and interests and as a protagonist poet. On the contrary, the thoughts and objects, which worsened his evil and greediness as an antagonist assistant surgeon. The results divulged that Keats vividly painted the golden merits of poetry in autumn, as they were Halloween treats that could please the bright side of his spirit and body. Notwithstanding, he could subtly depict the gloomy horrific deeds of medicine reflected in the nature of the dying season of autumn, which flashed through his dark side as a dresser when he was participating in some medical tasks as if they were Halloween tricks. The new historical analysis of To Autumn unveiled that Keats composed the poem to highlight the appetizing treats of poetry that he tasted as a good poet, and the illegal mischievous medical tricks he performed as a apothecary and a dresser.
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