Look again at the poem To Autumn in which Keats uses nature to represent his deeper feelings. Compare this with another poet(TM)s use of nature to describe feelings.

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Look again at the poem “To Autumn” in which Keats uses nature to represent his deeper feelings. Compare this with another poet’s use of nature to describe feelings.

Both “To Autumn” and “Amen” use natural imagery to represent the poets’ sensibility: for Keats it is the remarkable description of the harvest season that signifies a woman who cannot recognize her own individual worth and for Rossetti it is the cycle of seasons used to represent a process of reflection and getting beyond the problem. Both poems use nature as a symbol to mark the end of life; the season coming to an end characterizes a natural cycle. Keats does this by using active and passive vocabulary in the last stanza, such as “Then in wailful choir the small gnats mourn” in contrast to “Hedge – crickets sing, and now with treble soft.” Keats is sending the message that even at the end of life; we should not give up on living. This is similar to “Amen” which, in the last stanza looks towards the future. However, Rossetti shows this in the form of the poem. She extends the last stanza by two lines to emphasise the anticipation of summer. Spring is portrayed as a joyful time, and is the place where most positivity takes place in the poem.

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                This extension of two lines in “Amen” also connotes the theme of over-abundance with the definition of “teem” in the last line meaning ‘full’. Even so, these last two lines signify addition and emphasize overflow, which accentuates getting beyond the problem. This represents Rossetti’s feelings of conquering her depressive faze and finally understanding that the future can be better. Keats also includes the theme of over-abundance at the end of the first stanza, “warm days will never cease” gives the reader an indication of summer never ending and therefore, overflowing into autumn. This description of a season swarming into another ...

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