![]() However, Hopkins pulls the rhythm around in ‘Spring’ so that it is not strictly a sonnet, although it has fourteen lines and a set rhyme scheme. ![]() In this final stanza, sadder ideas are introduced and there is a much stronger sense of the poet.īoth poems have a set rhyming scheme and regular rhythm. The second stanza is addressing the season, talking of autumn’s role in the harvest rather than man’s role, and finally, the third stanza is showing autumn coming to an end. In ‘To Autumn’, Keats has made the first stanza purely descriptive and we have no sense of the poet or indication of where the poet is. In ‘Spring’, Hopkins has the octave establishing and describing Spring, whereas the shorter sestet is asking more philosophical and thoughtful questions about where spring comes from. Also, each poet has given each stanza a certain theme. However, in ‘Spring’ the stanzas are unequal one being an octave and the other a sestet. For example, both have very clear stanzas – ‘Spring’ is made up of two stanzas and ‘To Autumn’ consists of three equal stanzas. The structures of the poems are very similar in some ways. Because Hopkins did not publish his poems, he was able to have his own ideas and didn’t have to worry about pleasing people with his poems. He wrote his poem, ‘Spring’, in May 1877, before becoming a Jesuit priest in the summer of the same year. Hopkins had a love of individuality in his writing, and wrote very lavishly, showing nature as it should be when un-interfered with by man. Keats was a well known Romantic poet (often inspiring pre-Raphaelite painters) and so his writing contained many appeals to the senses. Keats suffered from consumption, and therefore would have known that he was about to die, so it is possible that an element of his poem showing autumn coming to an end, could also be referring to his life coming to an end. Keats wrote ‘To Autumn’ on September 19, 1819, half a year before he died. In the two poems ‘To Autumn’ by Keats and ‘Spring’ by Hopkins, the qualities of the two seasons are revealed in many different ways. Compare and contrast ‘To Autumn’ and ‘Spring’, showing how Keats and Hopkins reveal the qualities of the seasons. ![]()
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