The theme of sensual language continues into stanza two as the poem developes and as the season Autumn goes into this state of pure bliss. He uses highly sensual language like "oozing hours by hours" this is almost onomatopaeic as he is dragging us into the sense of stillness, this place he is describing is very relaxed a beautiful place to be in, he uses many vowels to get us into a drugged state of mind liek the season "fume of poppies" the language and the season is intoxicating a place of no worries. This stanza is very sensual it is slow moving and lazy "thee" this is the place Keats wants to be, this sensual language is trying to get the reader to make you feel and drag you into this state he personifies so you can relate to Autumn.
This detached second stanza of Autumn can also be seen as strange as Keats is trying to pull you into this drugged place, he is trying to take you away from the real world and into this unfamilar world which is the epitome of bliss a place of semi-consciousness where everything is calm and slow like the stanza, soft and slow with the repetition of 's' which sounds like the wind.
In Keats' "Ode to Psyche" we can see that Keats is focusing once again on the romantic ideals with reference to classical period "Godess" which is an era he often likes to visit. In the first stanza of psyche Keats is focusing on the importance of his own imagination "Surely I dreamt to-day, or did I see" he awakens wondering if he dreamt what he saw or did he see it but it does not matter, all that matters is that he experienced it. The idea of dream in Keats' Ode's is not actually about dreaming it is more imagination and how it does matter how you experience a feeling, as long as you feel. This Ode has all of the points from the statement the strange , the sensual and the dream the dream is often linked with the sensual, Keats takes you into a dreaming state with his sensual language and when he describes his experiences in his dream or imagination he is using sensual words "whispering" this is a personified human emotion to relate this place to the reader so we can also relate to the place he has taken us. Personification is often a technique keats uses to help take the reader to another place in his imagination or in your own just like in Autumn, he uses personification in Psyche to make his dream come alive when he describing nature
"In deepest grass, beneath the whispering roof
Of leaves and trembled blossoms"
this reference to nature makes his dream state seem more real to us and him which makes the experience that much better. The strange thing is not typically strange, but the strange views that he has inside his dreams and imagination like the way he refers to the soul "psyche" and cupid as "two fair creatures" not as emotions but personified to something that can move and come alive. Psyche meaning soul is obviously going to be very sensual because of what it is, the soul something that is immortal. As it is a narrative ode he is telling a story about cupid and the soul, how love forfills the soul he speaks of them as if they are alive and can interact with each other, this all about what Keats believes the soul "psyche" is about he, imagines this is what the soul is about. He mentions "slumber" a dream like state not one he is in but the soul is in when it is in love with the cupid
Psyche is very much about dreams and individual experience you can see this as it is a narrative Ode however it is also very strange as it seems that Keats is elevating the role of the poet to that of god which seems a contriversal thing to say as it could also be seen as blasfemic putting a poet "priest" on the same pedastoole as God. His whole dream like state is extremly strange saying he is going to build a garden in his mind for psyche and to let "warm love in!" love is welcome to come in with him, this dream seems to be about the relationship between the soul and love.
I do agree with this statement however I do feel there are some far more improtant and more widley used romantic ideals in his poems than the strange and the dream however sensual is a very important feature that runs through all of his Ode's whether it is describing beauty of art in Urn or nature in Autumn he uses sensual language in all of his Ode's and that is the main thing that makes the reader ask questions at the end after you have been taken to into his other reality, his dream.
