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Keats has been praised for the "richness of his language and imagery". Discuss what contribution you find this richness makes the effects of TWO poems.

Keats uses language techniques, imagery and sound devices to help enhance the "richness" in his two odes, "Ode on Indolence" and "Ode on Melancholy". Keats uses simile, pathetic fallacy, metaphor, personification, transferred epithet and oxymoron to enhance the imagery. Keats also uses sibilance and alliteration to help create the mood of both poems.

In "Ode on Indolence" Keats uses simile to describe the figures coming to life in his imagination, "They pass'd, like figures on a marble urn" this creates an ominous atmosphere and the figures seem silent and alluring. This shows that indolence can creep up on you. Keats also uses simile to describe the effect poetry has on his life, "For Poesy – no, - she has not a joy – At least for me,- so sweet as drowsy noons," the readers discover that Keats finds his love and talent of......

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