Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1722 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Keats and the Senses
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The idea
Unit seven found him accumulating sensory detail until a scene is nearly tactile, then letting a thought arrive out of it. Where Pope states a judgment in two lines, Keats builds a stanza of sensation before any judgment appears. The order of operations has reversed.
In practice
Sensation first, thought after.
Where people slip
The order has reversed.
Your place on the trail
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