MONO MONDAY

The challenge for Mono Monday, chosen by SK today was:

“Take a photo that gives a nod to a favourite poem, or a line from a poem.”

Since the weather, even in early September, has changed considerably and definitely feels very autumnal, I chose this poem, To Autumn by John Keats an English romantic poet who lived from 1795 to 1821.  This is the first stanza:

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

The poem speaks of autumn and all that happens during that wonderful season.  Looking at the way it was written and how much John Keats saw in all the beauty around him, I’m sure if Blip had been around in his day, he would have been out taking photographs and sharing them with us all.

You can read the whole poem here - and I have chosen the line “And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core” and used the blackberries in our garden.  We have already picked quite a lot, but there are now more that are plump and ripe enough to pick so that I can make some more Blackberry Chutney.  

I guess many of us (especially in the UK) could quote at least the first verse, having learned it at school - and for me, that was many years ago, but I still remember it!

"Poetry is when an emotion
     has found its thought
          and the thought 
               has found words."
Robert Frost
American Poet (1874-1963)