Although the atmosphere being created here is much different to the one used in Ode to Psyche, it is the sensations and feelings that are being highlighted through the use of alliteration. Another technique used by Keats to create a sensuous mood to his poetry and to show emotions is the repeated use of ternary structure. In Ode to a Nightingale ternary structure appears a number of times with the weariness, the fever and the fret and the grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild. However, it is in Ode to Indolence where his use of threes is most obvious. As well as the detailed use of alliteration and ternary structure to create a desired effect, Keats also uses a number of other literal techniques that give his poetry a much more sensual feel with which to match the topics he addresses. One of the most obvious techniques, as already seen Ode to Indolence is that of personification. Not only are the titles of his odes personified, Psyche, Melancholy, Indolence and Autumn, with a Nightingale and a Grecian Urn already physical enough to address, but also many of the other abstract nouns that appear in the poems. In Ode to Nightingale, Death is personified as Keats calls him soft names in many a mused rhyme.
Beauty is both personified in Ode to a Grecian Urn and Ode to Melancholy where Keats states that Beauty must die. (Anthology, p. 859) By personifying the untouchable, Keats makes feelings and other sensations much more obtainable. By making a more physical connection between him and such abstract ideas, sensations are made more immediate. However it also makes them much more material and therefore removing them from a purely sensual experience. It is clear that Keats has given a lot of thought into the role of Beauty.
The Essay on Grecian Urn Time Ode Keats
the poem titled " ode on a grecian urn' was written by a twenty three year old, john Keats during a very chaotic time of his life. during that time his brother tom had died and he had met and tragically had fallen in love with fanny brawn e -- his next-door neighbor whom he was unable to marry due to his illness. Keats attempts to put his concerns and feelings about living, love, art, religion, ...
It seems to suggest that art is beautiful as the unflinching representation of all aspect of true life and one of the most sensual experiences of them all. By the pure nature of using a poem to explore sensations and feelings there is an immediate connection between thoughts and sensations. When using the medium of poetry it seems impossible to separate thoughts and written feelings, for one is just another take on the other. A poem is something over which great care is taken to build the structure and vocabulary around the subject matter. By looking at all the poems it appears that no matter what Keats was aiming to do, they end up dealing with very complex issues. Admittedly there is a divide between the poems that are purely debates on philosophical sensual issues, and the odes which are more focused on the sensations and wish for transcendence.
However this is only a very fine divide as both circumstances occur in both types of poems. It would appear that in the odes, Keats has certainly not found his life of sensations as he seems to be thinking too much about them. It would appear that it is virtually impossible to separate the two ideas of feelings and thoughts in a mortal world. Keats seems to enjoy the debate which sensations create far too much to be able to live in it without reflection, just like Woodsworth suggested in his Prelude stating that access to feelings and emotions should be offered by poetry..
