Compare and contrast the views of Autumn in Ted Hughes’s There Came A
Day and John Keats’s Ode To Autumn. How do the poets use language
to convey these views?
There are many similarities and differences between the two autumn
poems ‘There came a day’ by Ted Hughes and ‘Ode to autumn’ by John
Keats. Both poems are based on autumn but they portray it in different
ways. ‘There came a day’ presents autumn in a negative way where as
‘ode to autumn’ presents it in a positive way. The reason that John
Keats may have written in a in a positive way about autumn is because
he was a pre-twentieth century poet and had a love for nature and
respect for the countryside. The style in which he writes is known as
‘romanticism’, which is when the poet writes from a personal view,
rather than based on facts. Ted Hughes was a twentieth century poet
and wrote in a slightly different way to John Keats. He knew a lot
about nature and was fond of animals and plants. This could explain
why he felt autumn is a harsh and ruthless season, because it
symbolises decay and the end of most plant life until spring.
We can tell from the title of John Keats’s poem ‘Ode To Autumn’ that
it is a positive poem, and obviously about autumn. The title means ‘to
praise autumn’ which implies that it is going to be about the good
aspects of the season. However, in Ted Hughes’s ‘There Came a Day’
there is a sense of anticipation and fear about the day. From the
title we cannot tell that the poem is about autumn but it is more
negative.
In the opening stanza of ‘Ode to Autumn’ the first few lines set a
bright and colourful introduction to the poem. It talks about autumn
as a season of mist and mellow fruitfulness. From this we know that it
is a...
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...rsonal tastes and styles. John Keats was a pre-twentieth
century poet, so the vocabulary used in his poem was very old
fashioned and traditional. We can tell this from the following words
and phrases “thou hast’’ and “thou dost”. Ted Hughes was a twentieth
century poet, so his writing and use of language is more modern,
phrases such as “stuff them” and “plucked it” imply that it is a more
recent poem.
The two poems have many differences and only a few similarities. I
believe there to be so many differences to be because of the different
time period that the two poets lived in because John Keats’s poem is
more traditional and Ted Hughes’s is modern. It is also because of the
different style they write in and their own personal points view about
autumn. Although I feel the similarity between the two poems is that
both poets show their individual feelings.
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