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Poem Comparison Autumn vs. July
Keats' Ode illustrates you several different aspects of autumn: the weather, the birds, the flowers,
the fruit, and the bees. He also provides you a sense of what is still to come (they believe warm
days will never end but we know better). It is enthusiastically observed, and rich in detail: it is
poetry.
Susan Swett's poem is in reality not much more than a list of flowers and colorful wildlife:
cornflowers, dragonflies, butterfly, and poppies. It is a type of beautiful 'impression' of July that
one would anticipate on a greeting card (the cheaper sort).
Autumn has been inferred as a meditation on death; as a story of artistic creation; as Keats's
response to the Peterloo Massacre, which happened in the same year; and as an expression of
nationalist sentiment. The poem To Autumn by John Keats indicates that autumn is to be enjoyed
and is a maturity as part of life. Though, winter does come.
"July" uses personification for the language providing a mood to the poem similar to a song.
She's expressing it in a lazy manner, as it is an instance "Has softened almost to a sigh".
Everything is in soft tones. "July" is based on the circle of July in a Sonnet.
In "To Autumn," Keats pays homage to autumn in the classical form of a goddess, who provides
beauty and a plentiful harvest while winter is certainly coming.
In "July," the poet merely depicts the beauty of the season without any sense of its coming to an
end with winter.

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