Sensuousness and pictorial qualities in Keats' poetry: reference to 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'To Autumn'
Discuss sensuousness and pictorial qualities in Keats’ poetry with reference to Ode to a Nightingale and To Autumn . A thorough study of Keats’ poems like Ode to a Nightingale and To Autumn justifies how Keats lived for ‘a life of sensations’. Opening up with a keen sensation of agony, Ode to a Nightingale soon gives place to ‘a drowsy numbness. Keats’ poetry excels in vividly sensuous images in the lines full of sensuousness and the visual picture of a drinking vessel. In the closing stanza of Ode to Autumn , a fantastic reconstruction of the dying autumnal twilight suggests the magnificent perfection of Keats’ poetic sensibility. Ode to a Nightingale seems to be suffused with pictures, mostly visual, but occasionally manifested with the aural, the tactile and the olfactory portraits. To Autumn is also full of sensuous pictures. Stanza I depicts the fruits of autumn. Stanza II of the ode a...