nature

Question 1

to autumn evaluative opener

Answer 1

Keats uses ‘To Autumn’ as a vehicle to romanticise the changing of seasons from summer to autumn and how this transition signifies death.

Question 2

to autumn context

Answer 2

Keats’ father died only when he was eight, and being a romantic poet he is able to accurately reflect on the idea of death with personal experiences through the use of nature.

Question 3

to autumn overview

Answer 3

Keats uses ‘To Autumn’ as a vehicle to romanticise the changing of seasons from summer to autumn and how this transition signifies death. Keats’ father died only when he was eight, and being a romantic poet he is able to accurately reflect on the idea of death with personal experiences through the use of nature.

Question 4

the prelude evaluative opener

Answer 4

Wordsworth uses ‘The Prelude’ as a vehicle to celebrate the rejuvenating value of nature through providing spots of time and the ephemerality of such moments through the passage of time and the transition from childhood to adulthood.

Question 5

the prelude context

Answer 5

Growing up in one of the rural parts of England, Wordsworth helped to launch the romantic movement and became one of the leading figures within it, hence the underlying theme of nature throughout many of his poems.

Question 6

the prelude overview

Answer 6

Wordsworth uses ‘The Prelude’ as a vehicle to celebrate the rejuvenating value of nature through providing spots of time and the ephemerality of such moments through the passage of time and the transition from childhood to adulthood. Growing up in one of the rural parts of England, Wordsworth helped to launch the romantic movement and became one of the leading figures within it, hence the underlying theme of nature throughout many of his poems.

Question 7

death of a naturalist overview

Answer 7

Heaney uses Death of a Naturalist as a vehicle to draw attention to the change in one’s perception of the natural world and the loss of childhood innocence as a result of the advent of adolescence. As a contemporary irish poet who grew up in the rural areas of Ireland, his vivid recollections of the nature he was surrounded by would have been reflected into his poems as he shares his experiences through his childhood and transition into adulthood.

Question 8

death of a naturalist evaluative opener

Answer 8

Heaney uses Death of a Naturalist as a vehicle to draw attention to the change in one’s perception of the natural world and the loss of childhood innocence as a result of the advent of adolescence.

Question 9

death of a naturalist context

Answer 9

As a contemporary irish poet who grew up in the rural areas of Ireland, his vivid recollections of the nature he was surrounded by would have been reflected into his poems as he shares his experiences through his childhood and transition into adulthood.

Question 10

death of a naturalist overview

Answer 10

Heaney uses Death of a Naturalist as a vehicle to draw attention to the change in one’s perception of the natural world and the loss of childhood innocence as a result of the advent of adolescence. As a contemporary irish poet who grew up in the rural areas of Ireland, his vivid recollections of the nature he was surrounded by would have been reflected into his poems as he shares his experiences through his childhood and transition into adulthood.