Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
The language used in The Autumnal shows Donne's love for the season and he uses elegant language to express this. He uses the word love repeatedly as that is the main theme of the poem, love. His love of the beauty and gracefullness of age.
The Autumnal explores the themes of age, youth and beauty. Donne starts off the poem by saying that he "has seen in one autumnal face" more "grace" and beauty than any of the other seasons. This shows us that the narrative voice feels that the autumn is the most beautiful of the seasons, despite the spring and summer are often considered the most beautiful. He also Alludes to real life historical figures. When he compares it to "Xerxes strange Lydian love" he uses this to explain that "Nature did bless her youth with age's glory" This is backing up his point of tage having beauty .
The poem is about how things that are older can be just as, if not more beautiful than things that are younger . He compares this to the seasons, saying that the autumn, when all the plants and flowers are dying, is much more gracefull than the "young beauties" of spring & summer, which "force our love".