The Turning Year
Season Two of A Voice Like This begins with autumn.
In “To Autumn”, John Keats finds the season at its fullest: heavy with fruit, warmth and ripeness, lingering in the last abundance of the year.
Gerard Manley Hopkins looks at the same turning of the seasons from a very different place. In “Spring and Fall: to a young child”, falling leaves become something deeper: a child’s first encounter with loss, change and the knowledge that nothing remains as it is.
Two poems. Two very different responses to the turning year.
Poems featured:
To Autumn – John Keats
Spring and Fall: to a young child – Gerard Manley Hopkins
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