thicket, and the fruit-tree wild'. However, it is in Ode to Indolence where he use of threes is most obvious. The actual poem is centred on the three personified images of 'Love The second was Ambition' and then Keats's 'demon Posey'. The relevance of using a continued pattern of three is that throughout time, an element of mystery has surrounded the use of threes and it is unequivocally connected the Holy Trinity.
             As well as the detailed use of alliteration and ternary structure to create a desired effect, Keats also uses a number of other literal techniques that give his poetry a much more sensual feel with which to match the topics he addresses. One of the most obvious techniques, as already seen Ode to Indolence is that of personification. Not only are the titles of his odes personified, Psyche, Melancholy, Indolence and Autumn, with a Nightingale and a Grecian Urn already physical enough to address, but also many of the other abstract nouns that appear in the poems. In Ode to Nightingale, 'Death' is personified as Keats calls 'him soft names in many a mused rhyme'. Beauty is both personified in Ode to a Grecian Urn and Ode to Melancholy where Keats states that 'Beauty must die'. By personifying the untouchable, Keats makes feelings and other sensations much more obtainable. By making a more physical connection between him and such abstract ideas, sensations are made more 'immediate'. However it also makes them much more material and therefore removing them from a purely sensual experience.
             As seen already, Keats's use of personification seems to contradict his views. However, it is not purely personification that seems to undermine his ideas on thoughts and feelings. By merely writing about feelings and sensations he has already shown his thoughts. What are his poems if they are not his views and thoughts on such matters? Not only is thought used by association, but the highly structured forms of languag...