Nature out of ContextNature has long been the focus of many an author’s work, whether it is expressed through poetry, short stories, or any other type of literary creation. Authors have been given an endless supply of pictures and descriptions because of nature’s infinite splendor that can be vividly reproduced through words. It is because of this fact that often a reader is faced with two different approaches to the way nature is portrayed. Some authors tend to look at nature from a more extensive perspective as in William Wordsworth’s “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” While some authors tend to focus more on individual aspects of nature and are able to captivate the reader with their intimate portrayals of nature that bring us right into their imaginations as shown in John Keats’ poem, “To Autumn.”Keats once wrote that other authors describe what they see, while Keats describes what he imagines. The poem, “To Autumn,” is certainly evidence of that because from the beginning it builds up the Autumn landscape and touches upon nature in a more concrete way than Wordsworth ever touched upon. Its full of excellent picture language like, “And fill all fruits with ripeness to the core, /To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells,” which shows that he can also write about what he sees and feels in the same sentence. Then in the second stanza he starts to fill an already almost perfect picture with his imagination, by moving the background of the poem from the ripened fruit to the cider press, showing what beautiful things that Autumn can produce. He personifies Autumn, “Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; /Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep, /Drows’d with the fume of poppies while they hook, /Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers,” thus embodying her into the daily routines of harvesting. But the second line in...
