Notice the balmy
softness
which is given to this line by the use
of long vowels and liquid consonants.
Keats
eyes._ Cf. _Ode on Melancholy_, 'Beauty that must
die.'
l. 32. _Not . . . pards._ Not wine, but poetry, shall give him release
from the cares of this world. Keats is again obviously thinking of
Titian's picture (Cf. _Lamia_, i. 58, note).
l. 40.
Notice the balmy
softness
which is given to this line by the use
of long vowels and liquid consonants.
PAGE 110. ll. 41 seq. The dark, warm, sweet atmosphere seems to enfold
us. It would be hard to find a more fragrant passage.
l. 50. _The murmurous . . . eves._ We seem to hear them. Tennyson,
inspired by Keats, with more self-conscious art, uses somewhat similar
effects, e.g.:
The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.
