Consider one example, from "The Eve of St Agnes":
"Then by the bed-side, where the faded moon
Made a dim, silver twilight, soft he set
A table, and, half anguished, threw thereon
A cloth of woven crimson, gold, and jet...."
Keats has presented a place, a moment, an action, and within a few
lines, he will have to refer back to the limited light in the room. How? In the most beautifully economical way possible. The
character in this patch of moonlight, Porphyro, places food on the table
--
That's it, right there: the night, the darkness, the small sector of light at the bedside, all conveyed by one adjective and its modified noun.
"Glowing hand."
"These delicates he heaped with glowing hand."
That's it, right there: the night, the darkness, the small sector of light at the bedside, all conveyed by one adjective and its modified noun.
"Glowing hand."
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