What are the figures of speech and metaphors used in "To Autumn" by John Keats?all figure speech

We can help you get started on this. The poem is about the
season, autumn, so to find metaphors and other figures of speech, look at each line to
find how the poet describes the season. What do you think about when you think of
autumn? Leaves changing colors, a crisp coolness to the air, approaching holiday season?
Keats writes about the images he associates with autumn in the same
way:

SEASON of
mists and mellow fruitfulness,
        Close bosom-friend of the maturing
sun

In autumn, the air is
"misty" and the fruits are ripe. This is a metaphor. In the second line, there is
personification, stating that the season of autumn is a "friend" to the sun. The image
here is that the sun is high in the sky, causing the fruit to ripen, so the sun and
autumn are "friends" working together to ripen the fruit. These images are continued in
the following lines. Can you find some other figures of speech in them in this first
stanza?

Look at the second stanza. There is quite a bit of
personification in this stanza. Doesn't it seem as if the poet is talking about a
person? But no, it is still the season he is
describing.

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Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

        Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
    Thee sitting
careless on a granary floor,
        Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing
wind;

If you go through the
poem in this way, you will find other figures of speech, such as
similes:

And
sometimes like a gleaner thou dost
keep