Download Using the poem "Ode to Autum" by John Keats and "A Mouse`s Nest

"Both writers, John Keats and John Clare discuss the power of nature in their works "Ode to
autumn," and "Mouse's Nest."
“John Clare, is a well-known English poet, writes about, the unfamiliar to him, worries of
little animals that carry him into the animal’s worlds in search of understanding of creatures’ life.
John Keats is another English poet, supplements John Clare, describing harmonious interaction
of nature. Using the epithetical combination of softness: lifted by wind, asleep, spares last; and
firmness: cease, careless, barred, swallows, - carries the trembles of insects and animals to the
reader, what describes nature as powerful” (megaessays).
The period of time in Keats’ Ode is the end of September - “Season of mists and mellow
fruitfulness”- a time of heavy fogs, chilly dew, and reaping the crops. The warm and long
Sunshine gets shorter “Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun” and seasons come along. The
falling leaves make the green vines “nude” creating the “thatch” on the ground. It’s time to
gather fruits, but autumn wants to fill them with “a sweet kernel; or make flowers dense with
nectar “to set budding more lately flowers for the bees” so they will “think warm days will never
cease”. The creatures are discouraged “a choir of small gnats mourns”; lambs are in “loud bleat”.
The sky “swallows twitter” of the birds flying to the South.
In Mouse’s nest author depicts her with a fantastic look that astonishes him by it’s
courage – “she with her young ones hanging” on a danger lookout runs away when man
approaches. “Young ones” - phrase used to emphasize the significance of mom, because when
the danger approaches, she leaves them and escape, otherwise she won’t be capable to nurture
more young. “The water over the pebbles scarce could run” and the hole is “glittered in the sun”
imply that mouse can habituate everywhere.
Through these poems we see how authors using colorful and sensitive epithets bring their
feeling and thoughts to a reader. Only powerful combination of literature devises can leave
strong impact on audience.
Works Cited
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Journal article by John Wareham; The Explicator, Vol. 55, 1996
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