Death Of A Naturalist and To Autumn Comparison

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Death Of A Naturalist and To Autumn Comparison

Similarities

  • Show a love of nature 'Miss Walls would tell us', 'great slime kings' and 'seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness', 'winnowing wind', 'rosy hue'
  • Things coming to an end 'think not of them'
  • Rich, sensual imagery 'flax dam festered', 'sweltered', 'warm thick slobber', slap plop obscene' and 'to swell the gourd and pump the hazel shell', 'for Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells'
  • Use of alliteration 'coarse croaking' and 'winnowing wind'
  • Use of onomatopoeia 'slap plop' and 'winnowing', 'oozings'

Differences

  • TA - end of a season
  • DN - end of childhood, loss of innocence
  • DN - fear of change
  • DN - personal memory of youth
  • DN - fearful and sinister tone at the end 'coarse croaking', 'slap plop obscene'
  • TA - laid back, mellow and contended tone 'winnowing wind', 'oozings', 'rosy hue'
  • DN - mixing of senses - synaesthesia 'warm thick slobber', 'jellied'

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Comments

Tom00800

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great

ZainP

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its sick but doesn't have an overall comparison which is annoying