Poetry Anthology - Death of a Naturalist + To Autumn

Question 1

Point 1 + quotations:

Answer 1

Human connection to nature through their senses.

DoaN
- “bubbles gargled”
- “strong gauze of sound around the smell”

To Autumn
- “swell the gourd”
- “plump the hazel shells”
- “o’er brimmed”

Question 2

Point 2 + quotations:

Answer 2

Heaney and Keats both create a sense of foreshadowing surrounding the transformation in nature and their change in perspective of it.

DoaN
- “heavy headed”
- “punishing sun”
- “sweltered”, “festered” and “rotted”

To Autumn
- “they think warm days will never cease”
- “Sitting careless on a granary floor”

Question 3

Point 3 + quotations:

Answer 3

Both poems the poets present the change of nature in a darker and perhaps even menacing sense, both of which evoking a sense of loss. Whilst, Heaney presents the change as more deadly and disgusting, Keats describes the darker change as more complex + multifaceted.

DoaN
- “Then one hot day when fields were rank.”
- “invaded”, “cocked”
- “poised like mud grenades”

To Autumn
- “hook”
- “in wailful choir the small gnats mourn”

Question 4

Point 4 + quotations:

Answer 4

Maturation of nature – loss of naivety in boy + loss of fruition in surroundings

DoaN
- “Gathered there for vengeance”
- can no longer fit the “angry frogs” in ”jampots..” like he did with the “tadpoles”

To Autumn
- “Gathering swallows twitter in the skies”
- “wailfful choir”