'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

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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 blows and picks up things swiftly and softly. He also talks about the harvest and the fruits that lay on the floor and are on the tree and how mature and ripen they are in the autumn season and how the sun works in this and is said ‘and fill the fruit to the ripeness to the core’ in this he means that the fruit in the autumn is very tasty through all of it.

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John Keats in his poem refers to it like as if it was a person when he says ‘thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind’ saying that it lifts your hair and on the line before it is wrote ‘thee sitting careless on a granary floor’ I believe this also refers to a person as we aren’t perfect and people are careless so he could be referring to it as a kind of lazy person who just sits around all day looking beautiful. A few lines further on it says ‘and sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep’ this meaning ...

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