Bengali Meaning of Ode to Autumn By John Keats
1819
Stanza 1: The Abundance of Harvest
Line 1
Text: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Autumn is a time of gentle morning fogs and rich, fully ripe fruits.
এটি ঘন কুয়াশা এবং মিষ্টি, পাকা ফলমূলের ঋতু।
Line 2
Text: Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Autumn is like a close, intimate friend of the sun, which is getting older as the year progresses.
শরৎকাল হলো পূর্ণাঙ্গ বা পরিপক্ব সূর্যের এক অন্তরঙ্গ বন্ধু।
Lines 3–4
Text: Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
Autumn and the sun plan together on how to cover the grapevines growing around cottage roofs with heavy fruit.
শরৎ ও সূর্য মিলে পরামর্শ করে কীভাবে খড়ের চাল বেয়ে ওঠা আঙুরলতাকে প্রচুর ফলে ভরিয়ে দেওয়া যায়।
Lines 5–6
Text: To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, / And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
Their plan is to weigh down moss-covered apple trees with fruit and fill every fruit completely with sweetness right to its center.
শ্যাওলা ধরা কুটির-সংলগ্ন আপেল গাছগুলোকে ফলের ভারে নুইয়ে দেওয়া এবং প্রতিটি ফলকে একদম কেন্দ্র পর্যন্ত পাকা ও মিষ্টি করে তোলা।
Lines 7–8
Text: To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells / With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
They make gourds grow larger, fill hazelnut shells with sweet nuts, and make new flower buds grow.
লাউকে আকারে বড় করা, হ্যাজেল নাটের ভেতরের অংশকে মিষ্টি শাঁসে পূর্ণ করা এবং আরও নতুন ফুলের কুঁড়ি ফোটানো।
Line 9
Text: And still more, later flowers for the bees,
They encourage even more late-season flowers to blossom specifically for the bees.
মৌমাছিদের জন্য আরও কিছু শেষ মুহূর্তের ফুল ফোটানো।
Lines 10–11
Text: Until they think warm days will never cease, / For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
The bees start believing the warm summer weather will last forever because their honeycombs are completely overflowing with sweet honey.
যাতে মৌমাছিরা ভাবতে শুরু করে এই উষ্ণ দিন বুঝি কখনোই শেষ হবে না, কারণ গ্রীষ্মের ভালোবাসায় তাদের আঠালো মৌচাক চুইয়ে পড়া মধুতে ভরে গেছে।
Stanza 2: Personification of Autumn
Line 12
Text: Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Who has not frequently seen autumn resting among its harvested crops?
কে না তোমাকে প্রায়ই শস্যে ভরা ভাণ্ডারের মাঝে দেখেছে?
Lines 13–14
Text: Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find / Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Anyone walking through the countryside might spot autumn sitting peacefully and without a care on the floor of a grain warehouse.
যে কেউ বাইরে একটু খুঁজলেই দেখতে পাবে তুমি শস্যগোলার মেঝেতে নিশ্চিন্তে বসে আছো।
Line 15
Text: Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Autumn's hair is gently blown by the soft breeze used to separate grain from chaff.
শস্য থেকে তুষ আলাদা করার হালকা বাতাসে তোমার চুল মৃদুভাবে উড়ছে।
Lines 16–18
Text: Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, / Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
Or autumn might be found asleep in a half-harvested field, made sleepy by the fragrance of poppy flowers, leaving the next row of grain and wild flowers uncut for a moment.
অথবা অর্ধেক ধান কাটা ক্ষেতের নালায় পোপি ফুলের গন্ধে মাতাল হয়ে ঘুমে ঢুলে পড়েছ, আর তোমার কাস্তেটি পেঁচিয়ে থাকা ফুলসহ পরবর্তী শস্যের সারিকে রেহাই দিয়েছে।
Lines 19–20
Text: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep / Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Sometimes autumn acts like a gleaner (someone gathering leftover grain), carefully balancing a heavy basket of grain on her head while walking across a stream.
আবার কখনো কুড়ানিদের মতো মাথায় ভরের বোঝা নিয়ে একটি ছোট নদী বা ঝরণা পার হওয়ার সময় মাথা স্থির রাখছ।
Lines 21–22
Text: Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, / Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Or autumn sits by an apple juice press, patiently watching the very last drops of juice squeeze out for hours.
অথবা আপেলের রস বের করার যন্ত্রের পাশে বসে বছরের শেষ ফোঁটা রসটুকু ঝরে পড়া ঘণ্টার পর ঘণ্টা ধৈর্য ধরে দেখছ।
Stanza 3: The Sounds and Music of Autumn
Lines 23–24
Text: Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they? / Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
Where are the cheerful songs of springtime? Do not worry about them; autumn has its own beautiful music.
বসন্তের সেই সুর গান কোথায় গেল? আহা, কোথায় তারা? তাদের কথা ভেবো না, তোমার নিজস্ব সঙ্গীতও আছে।
Lines 25–26
Text: While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, / And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
As long striped clouds make the setting sun look like a opening flower, they paint the harvested crop fields with a soft pink twilight light.
যখন ডোরাকাটা মেঘগুলো গোধূলির ম্লান হওয়া দিনকে বিকশিত করে এবং কেটে নেওয়া শস্যের ক্ষেতগুলোকে গোলাপি আভায় স্পর্শ করে;
Lines 27–29
Text: Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn / Among the river sallows, borne aloft / Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
A sad group of small insects buzzes near the willow trees by the river, drifting up and down as the gentle breeze blows and stops.
তখন নদীর ধারের উইলোগাছের আড়ালে ছোট মশাদের একটি করুণ দল গুনগুন করে শোক প্রকাশ করে, মৃদু বাতাস উঠা বা নামার সাথে সাথে যারা ওপরে ওঠে বা নিচে নেমে যায়।
Line 30
Text: And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Fully grown lambs bleat loudly from their pastures on the hills.
পাহাড়ি প্রান্তর থেকে বড় হয়ে ওঠা ভেড়ার বাচ্চারা উচ্চস্বরে ডেকে ওঠে।
Lines 31–33
Text: Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Crickets sing in the bushes, robin birds whistle softly from small garden plots, and swallows gathering for migration chirp in the evening sky.
ঝোপঝাড়ের ঝিঁঝিঁ পোকা গান গায়; আর এখন মৃদু চড়া সুরে রবিন পাখি বাগানের জমি থেকে শিস দেয়; এবং আকাশের বুকে জমায়েত হওয়া সোয়ালো পাখিরা কিচিরমিচির করতে থাকে।
Summary
John Keats’s famous poem "Ode to Autumn" is a peaceful and beautiful celebration of the fall season, showing it not as a cold or sad time, but as a period of complete maturity, warmth, and quiet fulfillment. Written in 1819, the poem captures the richness of nature by focusing on three distinct aspects across its three parts: the heavy ripening of crops, the calm human activities of the harvest, and the unique music created by nature as the day comes to an end.
The poem begins by describing autumn as a very close friend of the sun, working secretly together to fill the earth with an unbelievable amount of food and life. They load down grapevines along cottage roofs, weigh down apple trees until their branches bend under the heavy fruit, and make sure every fruit is ripened completely to its very center. Vegetables like gourds grow big and round, nut shells are stuffed with sweet meat, and flowers continue to bloom late into the season, tricking the busy bees into believing that the warm, sweet days of summer will never end.
In the second part, Keats brings autumn to life by imagining the season as a person relaxing amid the hard work of the farm harvest. Anyone walking through the countryside might see autumn sitting peacefully on the floor of a grain warehouse while a gentle wind softly blows through her hair, or taking a cozy nap in the middle of a half-harvested field, made sleepy by the sweet fragrance of poppy flowers left standing among the crops.
Autumn is also shown as a careful worker steadily balancing a heavy basket of harvested grains on her head while stepping across a small countryside stream. At other times, autumn sits quietly beside an apple juice press with complete patience, watching the very last drops of fresh cider slowly squeeze out hour after hour. Instead of showing farm work as exhausting or stressful, Keats presents these harvest tasks with a deep sense of stillness, rest, and effortless calm.
As the poem moves into its final part, Keats addresses the idea that spring is the only season worth celebrating for its beauty and songs. He asks where the songs of spring have gone, but immediately tells autumn not to worry or feel sad because she has her own wonderful music. Rather than longing for the past, the poem teaches us to appreciate the special beauty that exists in every stage of nature's natural cycle.
As the sun gently sets and long clouds paint a soft pink glow over the harvested crop fields, nature begins its own peaceful evening concert. Small insects buzz and hum together in a sad choir near the river willow trees, floating up and down with the changing breeze, while fully grown lambs bleat loudly from the hillsides, and crickets sing softly from the bushes.
The poem ends with the gentle sounds of robin birds whistling from garden plots and flocks of swallows chirping as they gather in the evening sky to prepare for winter. Through these simple sights and sounds, Keats leaves us with a feeling of complete peace and acceptance, showing that every ending in nature carries its own quiet beauty and gentle harmony.
Autumn is called the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" because it perfectly captures both the weather and the rich harvest of the fall season. In early autumn, the cooling night air combines with warm ground temperatures to create gentle morning fogs and hazy mists over fields and rivers, giving the landscape a quiet, atmospheric beauty. At the same time, autumn marks the peak moment of nature’s growth, when crops, grains, and fruits reach complete maturity and abundance. The word "mellow" highlights that this ripening happens in a soft, gentle way under mild sunlight, filling fruits with their sweetest flavors without the harsh heat of summer. Together, these two features present autumn as a peaceful time of total fulfillment, where nature slows down to enjoy the rich rewards of its season's labor.
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