How do the two poets use Visual Description to contribute to their

How do the two poets use Visual Description to contribute to their

Underlying Theme? - Keats and Hopkins in Hurrahing in harvest and

To Autumn.

How do the two poets use Visual Description to contribute to their

Underlying Theme?

There are many similarities between the descriptions of the two poets

and probably the most obvious is that both of the poems refer to the

seasons with Keats and Hopkins in 'Hurrahing in Harvest' and 'To

Autumn' referring to autumn and Hopkins to spring in 'Spring'. Both of

the poets use the these natural events (the seasons) to suggest their

own underlying means even though they are different and they also use

personification all throughout the poems to suggest their underlying

mean and an example of this would be two titles of the poems

'Hurrahing in Harvest' and 'To Autumn' which both personify the

seasons.

However even though from a glance both of the poems look like they are

suggesting similar things this is not true because if a closer look is

taken it is clear that both of the poets use lots of description but

that it is very different because looking at Hopkins poems he uses

sort of riddles and an example of this would be in 'Hurrahing in

Harvest' and this is shown in the following quote:

Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, willful-wavier

Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

Looking at the words highlighted in blue this is an Anglo Saxon

riddles (a kenning) used to describe the clouds as if they were

floating around in the sky and he used these riddles so that he did

not have to use the exact words and he also wanted to use them as they

were used in Anglo Saxon poems so that he did not have to use rhymes

to make the poem flow and instead use alliterations to make it flow

and there are many examples of the use of alliterations such as 'what

wind-walks' in Hurrahing in Harvest and 'long and lovely and lush' and

taking this as an example he uses asinations where he uses repeated

vowel sounds to try and make the poem flow. However Keats does not use

either asinations or alliterations to make the poem flow and he uses

rhyme schemes to do this.

Similar words are also used in the poems such as the word 'lambs'

although they are superficial and have very minor similarities but the

differences are great as Hopkins uses the words 'the racing lambs' to

emphasize new life whereas Keats uses the words 'full-grown lambs' to

suggest ending. There is also the use of the word 'bloom' however it