To Autumn - Task One

TO AUTUMN

Task One

1.

"Rebirth and birth

And it goes round and round

From Zeus' hands to the arms on Thanatos

To the cycle you are bound"

2.

"The colours expand across the grey sky

Alas, the arc upon your sorrowed brow
Is as pulchritudinous

As the glistening, transluccent bow"

3.

"Shadows reach for me

I walk alone

But the shadows reach up

As so I go on"

Task Two

Some of the similarities we spotted between to Autumn and our use of language are of the following :

- All the description of the beauty of nature, and the sense of admiration towards it.
- The personification of nature, in our case in "sorrowed brow" compared to how Keats' compares Autumn to a woman.
- The themes of life and death and the cycles in life. Keats' describes natures cycles (Summer, Autumn, etc), as we portrayed on our first picture, and as we expressed on our lines on it. We wrote about how life and death meet and how we are bound to it, as Keats' does in his poem; "Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies".