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 that when it picks things up it picks them up and once again referring to a person on how they pick things up.
John Keats seems to go into detail in the surroundings of Autumn when he mentions the ‘moss`d cottage-trees’ and the ‘cyder-press’ saying this I think it means he likes that way of life or that he used to live like that and knows what the experience is like.
In the next poem which is called ‘autumn’ and is wrote by John Clare. In this poem the writer has a love of autumn and we see this at the start of the first 3 paragraphs as they all start with ‘I love’ suggesting that he really actually loves the season autumn and from his background where he grew up he was the son of an agricultural labourer and in this time he may have experienced this.
In the poem ‘autumn’ the poet uses enthusiastic words which make the poem upbeat and lively and puts energy into it, words like ‘twirling, flirting by, scramble and hurry and shaking’. When he mentions about leaves and how they twirl by the window pane and there are many more down the lane and when he says ‘acorns near the old crow’s nest’ may suggest that John Clare knows the area he is talking about and is another point that he may used to live there.
In ‘autumn’, animals and the surroundings are mentioned a lot perhaps saying that wildlife are a key part to how he see autumn and he may think that autumn makes the animals come out and it is kind of special for the too.
In the last poem ‘October Dawn’, the poet Ted Hughes says on the first two lines ‘October is marigold, and yet a glass half full of wine left out’ in these lines he is saying October is beautiful and bright but it is deserted and abandoned and could well be under looked and not appreciated as it should be. He says that the wine is left out to ‘the dark heaven all night’ in this he saying that even at night it is heavenly and beautiful.
Ted Hughes describes October as the ‘ice age’ and in normal life when it is an ice age not every thing survives but some it is there desired climate and this is said in the poem as he says ‘shrubbery are doomed. Ice has got its spearhead into place’ this bit of the poem is an example of the suffering of the cold. It also describes ice as a soldier in the way that it is much stronger than the shrubbery and the shrubbery can not survive once the ice has got it. In the poem when it is said ‘mammoth and sabre-tooth celebrate’ this is said because these are animals which used to live and preferred the cold and therefore when it says celebrate this means it goes back to their climate.
At the end of ‘October Dawn’ the poet says ‘squeezes the fire at the core of the heart, and now it is about to start’ I think this is a good line for an ending as 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.