To Autumn, Autumn and October Dawn that each of the poets has different

To Autumn, Autumn and October Dawn that each of the poets has different

opinions and feelings on Autumn and they also interpret Autumn in their

poems in different ways too. The three poets John Keats, John Clare and

Ted Hughes

Compare the presentation of Autumn in the three poems

We see after reading the poems: ‘To Autumn’, ‘Autumn’ and ‘October

Dawn’ that each of the poets has different opinions and feelings on

Autumn and they also interpret Autumn in their poems in different ways

too. The three poets John Keats, John Clare and Ted Hughes write about

the season with admiration and its beauty.

All of the poets mentioned above led amazing and bizarre lives living

on the edge of brilliance and insanity. With John Keats and John Clare

both experiencing breakdowns and having their lives turned upside down

and Ted Hughes having troubled marriages, the three of them still

managed to come through and write such great and fantastic poems which

have become so popular and are still around today. We also see that

all the poets had a connection or fascination with the country and

although John Keats was the only one who didn’t live in the country

but he was still able to write great poems on wildlife and the seasons

and the countryside.

In all three of the poems weather is a key part in all of the poems

and is stated often. In the poem ‘To Autumn’ the sun is mentioned as a

‘close bosom-friend of the maturing sun’ by this I believe he is

saying that the sun and autumn work together to make it look beautiful

and grow all the fruit to perfection. John Keats mentions a lot about

the wind in his poem and says ‘thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing

wind’ I think this means that the wind is gentle and it lightly ...

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... it leaves it with a way of a cliff-hanger

but I believe the poet has wrote that ending line because he is a

optimistic person because at the start of the poem, Ted Hughes says a

glass of wine which was left out was ‘half full’ suggesting he is an

optimistic person and believes that the earth and the wildlife and all

the greens will survive through the cold.

In the poems ‘to autumn’ and ‘autumn’ they both are similar as they

put life and energy into their poems and they also go into more detail

about the weather and the surroundings and animals. In the two poems

just mentioned they just describe how beautiful Autumn is but in

‘October dawn’ the poet Ted Hughes mentions how October which is the

one of the months when Autumn is and he says it is beautiful but it

has its downside as it is a danger and threat to greenery and is a

fight until autumn is over.