use of five sense in keats odd
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Name : Umaba Gohil B
Sem :2
Roll No : 15
Paper No : 5 Romantic Literature
Topic : Use of five senses in Keats odd
Email id : [email protected]
Submitted By : Smt S.B.Gardi, Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.
Department of English
Five senses in keat’s odd
john Keats was an English romantic poet who
composed six odes in 1819.
Ode on Grecian Urn
Ode on Indolence
Ode on Melancholy
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Psyche
Ode to Autumn
What is sense?
Sense is faculty by which the body perceives an
external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight,
smell,hearing,taste, and touch.
At it’s most basic level, an image is anything that
evokes any of the five senses.
Visual [ sight]
Aural [ sound ]
Smell
Taste
Sensation [ touch ]
Keats sensitivity and delicacy of his imagery is part and parcel of genius.
I’ve color coded one of his most famous poem, the ode to Autumn , to help readers visually appreciate his use of imagery .
Notice too, by the color coding ,that you can see keat’s mind works. There are image cluster .
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The first stanza is primarily visual, sight is our pre-eminent sensory experience, Keats knows it, and so the first stanza creates the poem’s setting.
before the close of the first stanza , he dwells on sensation [touch] :the warmth of the day, the clammy cells, the soft lifted hair. We can also included the winnowing wind as a sensation since we can both see and feel the wind.
The second moves us back to the visual experience of autumn. The fume of poppies engage our sense of smell.
In the third stanza keat’s verse exploded with aural imagery as the countryside he depicts is filled with sound : ‘waiful’choirs of mourning gnats, the lamb’s loud bleating.
Ode to Nightingale
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
nor what soft incense hangs upon the dough's.
the above lines taken from stanza 5 of the ode to
nightingale [ I cannot see] the senses of touch
and of smell [soft incense]and by the end of the
verse , with its evocation of ‘the coming musk-roes
, full of dewy wine, the murmerous haunt of flies’
,the senses of taste and hearing have also been
incorporated.
Ode on Grecian urn
heard melodies are sweet , but those unheard
are sweeter ;therefore soft pipes ,play on.
This line depicted sense of hearing and touch.
A burning forehead , and preaching tounge
depicted sense of taste.
Ode to psyche
mid hush's , cool-rooted flowers , fragrant eyed
.
fledge the wild –ridged mountains steep by
steep
In this two line we show Keats uses sense of