Synaesthesia in Keats� Poetry:
Synaesthetic imagery or sensuousness is the paramount quality in Keats� poetry. Keats� synaesthetic powers are unrivalled: nothing in the world is abstract to him, abstractions weary him. Keats admits, �My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.� And that aesthetic dream-life which is separated so sharply from the reality is more desireable. Keats has crowned every line of his poetry with beautiful colouring of synaesthetic imagery. Richard H. Fogle calls his synaesthesia as the product of his �unrivalled ability to absorb, sympathise, and humanise natural objects� . Synaesthesia in Keats, according to him, is a �natural concomitant of other qualities of his poetry� . Sensuousness is that quality of poetry that appeals to our five senses of taste, touch, smell, vision and hearing. Keats� sensuousness was unbounded: the song of a bird, the changing pattern of wind, the rustling of an animal, the smile on the child�s face�nothing escaped from her watchful eyes. G.K Chesterton right...