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Compare and contrast the views of Autumn inTed Hughes's 'There Came A Day' and John Keats's ' Ode To Autumn'. How do thepoets use language to convey these views?
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- Mon Mar 14 2005

... 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














