In five pages the relationship between these two poems by John Keats is analyzed. One other source is cited in the bibliography.
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a short period of time. His work is most renowned for its approach to nature, and its symbolic use of nature. His poetry presents the reader with such imagery that
one can almost hear and see and smell and feel the nature that surrounds the narrator. With that in mind the following paper examines Keats approach to nature through a
discussion of "To Autumn." The paper also discusses his poem "Ode on Melancholy" and then compares the two. To Autumn "In Ode to Autumn, Keats tells us about
the Autumn that he experienced: To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease..." (Returning to Nature in an Age
of Reason: Experiencing the Poetry of Wordsworth and Keats). In these lines we are invited and perhaps all but forced, into tasting and smelling the season. As one author notes,
"We leave his poetry wanting to take a country walk so that we can take in the same smells and scenery that he wrote about" (Returning to Nature in an
Age of Reason: Experiencing the Poetry of Wordsworth and Keats). In this poem Keats also brings sounds into play in a very powerful manner that speaks to us of nature
and of the season. "Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft the red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies" (31-33). Again, we note the words
of critics who may state, "The singing crickets rhythmically harmonize with the whistles of a red-breasted bird, all the while, swallows twitter in the sky. What sounds! What scenery!" (Returning