This document discusses John Keats as a poet of sensuousness. It explains that sensuous poetry appeals to the senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. It analyzes several of Keats' poems that exemplify his use of sensory details, including descriptions of a woman's hair and eyes, the music of a nightingale, extreme cold, different wines, and mingled flower perfumes. The conclusion states that Keats' senses revealed beauty to him and that he had a mastery of using sensuous details in his poetry, which is why he is considered a sensuous poet.
4. SENSUOUSNESS
Sensuousness is a quality in poetry
which appeals the senses like Hearing,
seeing, touching, smelling, and tasting.
Sensuous poetry does not present ideas
and philosophical thoughts. It gives
delight to our senses.
5. JOHN KAETS
Keats is the worshiper of beauty and finds
beauty everywhere; and it is his senses that
first reveal to him the beauty of things.
Thus, it is his sense impressions that
kindled his imagination which makes him
realize the great principle that:
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
6. SENSE OF SIGHT
keats is a painter of
words. In a few word
he presents a concrete
and solid picture of sensuous beauty.
Her hair was long, her foot was light
And her eyes were wild.
7. SENSE OF HEARING
The music of
nightingale produces
pangs of pain in poets
heart.
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days, by emperor and clown:
8. SENSE OF TOUCH
The opening lines of La Belle
Dame Sans Merci Keats describes
extreme cold which makes us to feel cold
The sedge is withered from
the lake
And no birds sing.
9. SENSE OF TASTE
In Ode to Nightingale, Keats
describes different kinds of wine and
the idea of their tastes in intoxication.
O for a beaker full of warm South
Full of the true the blushful
Hippocrene,
10. SENSE OF SMELL
In Ode to Nightingale, the poet cant see the
flowers in darkness. There is mingled perfume of
many flowers.
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the
boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each
sweet.
11. CONCLUSION..
It is his senses which revealed him the
beauty of things, the beauty of universe
from the stars of the sky to the flowers of
the wood.
No other poet could show such a mastery of
sensuousness so Keats is also called a
sensuous poet.