Keats's "To Autumn" is structured around the idea of garnering — the season as the time of gathering and storing, the year's abundance collected against future need; A poet might write "she garnered small mercies the way her grandmother had garnered grain — carefully, with gratitude, knowing that winter was patient and longer than summer's confidence"; The verb "to garner" has so thoroughly escaped its agricultural origins that modern poets can use it in either its literal or extended sense — to garner praise, experience, or evidence — while the agricultural resonance remains available for those who reach for it; In poems about memory and the selective preservation of experience, garner serves as the organizing metaphor — the memory as granary, the mind as the storehouse where the year's significant moments are laid up against the darkness of forgetting; The Georgian poets of the early twentieth century, consciously reaching back to an agricultural England disappearing before industrialization, use garner and granary imagery to locate their poetry within a tradition of harvest and preservation; The image of the well-stocked garner — the granary full at harvest time — represents in pastoral poetry the ideal outcome of the year's labor, the proof that patience and effort have been rewarded.