Banquo replies:

The storm in King Lear is as impressive, and is brought into close relation with human action and with the tempest which rages in the breast of the aged king. It is thus that the Tamil poets portray the desolation of lovers at separation with the background of the desolation during the season of excessive heat, and with the suffering of humanity as in Neṭunalvaaṭai.

   After Shakespeare, James Thompson deserves mention in a comparative study, not because of the intrinsic worth of his poem The Seasons, but because of the idea that he conceived of making the seasons the subject of so many hundreds of lines of poetry. After Pope and Pope's recall to man, Thompson affirmed a return to Nature. He wrote from a loving and detailed observation of Nature and described every aspect of the seasons, the trees, the flowers and the animals. Spring, he made symbolic of pure love which he calls "the passion of the groves".

Summer gave him the opportunity to sing the praises of Philosophy; in Autumn, he sang the praises of a philosophical country life, and in Winter he saw a temporary death all around so that it reminded him of the deathless lot of man.