It seems that a recurring theme in writer John Keats' odes is the idea of permanence versus temporality. They investigate the relationships, or barriers to relationship, between always changing human beings and the eternal, static and unalterable forces superior to humans. In John Keats' poems, "Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn" Keats longs for the immortality of the beauty of the season and of the song of the nightingale but deep down he knows he can not obtain it.
In the ode "To Autumn" author John Keats longs to have everlasting cyclic life such as that of the season, but he knows when he dies he can never come back. Firstly Keats praises Autumn for its beauty describing its abundance and its intimacy with the sun, with whom Autumn ripens fruits and causes the late flowers to bloom.
Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom- friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit…
To swell the gourd and plump the hazel shells…......

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Title: John Keats: Permanance Vs Temporality
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