ABSTRACT
In the last chapter, we briefly discussed a grammatical rearrangement of the two lines from ‘To Autumn’: ‘Autumn is a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. / Indeed, it is a close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.’ We saw that, on the sentential level, this arrangement marks the text as informative, rather than as an expression of excitement. Now, part of this sentential effect derives from the adverbial ‘Indeed’ and the pronoun ‘it’, which explicitly link the two sentences. ‘Indeed, it’ announces that the second sentence is going to confirm and amplify the first, conveying additional information about autumn. The linking of one sentence to another is the most significant feature found on the discourse level.
