The writing style of Keats

[browneyes03]

What would you say was the writing style of this marvelous poet?

[Wynn]

Brilliant! awesome! gorgeous! blissful! and... quiet.

[Malia]

I love the way Keats uses alliteration, assonance and consonance in his work to create interior rhymes and rhythms. These devices can be subtle, but the effect--especially when reading Keats's works aloud--is to create a luscious kind of music. That's one of the reasons, I think, why Keats's poems are so hard to set to music--they often "clash" with a composer's score if the composer does not listen very closely to the music Keats, himself, created within the poetry.

[Saturn]

Like crunchy cucumber, strong yet succulent, juicy as a pineapple, as thick and satisfying as a jar of honey poured on soft ice-cream.

[Malia]

Like crunchy cucumber, strong yet succulent, juicy as a pineapple, as thick and satisfying as a jar of honey poured on soft ice-cream.

Amen!

[BrokenLyre]

Keats - that nectar loving man - would approve of your description.

[Saturn]

[browneyes03]

Like crunchy cucumber, strong yet succulent, juicy as a pineapple, as thick and satisfying as a jar of honey poured on soft ice-cream.

I love your description.

I love the way Keats uses alliteration, assonance and consonance in his work to create interior rhymes and rhythms. These devices can be subtle, but the effect--especially when reading Keats's works aloud--is to create a luscious kind of music. That's one of the reasons, I think, why Keats's poems are so hard to set to music--they often "clash" with a composer's score if the composer does not listen very closely to the music Keats, himself, created within the poetry.

and this too - helps me understand the mechanics, as it were, of his style.


Thank-you both. x

[Raphael]

Sensual, spiritual, mystical, magical, evocative, intense, colourful, beautiful, sensitive, passionate.
He is the world's greatest poet!