Hallucination in Keat's poetry, hallucination and its causes, effect of hallucination, ode to Psyche, Ode to Nightingale,

1. Hallucination in Keats’ poetry
Krishna Patel
Prakruti Bhatt
Jetal Dhapa

2. Hallucination and its causes
• Cambridge English Dictionary defines
hallucination as: “an experience in which you see,
hear, feel or smell something that does not exist,
usually because you are ill or have taken a drug.”
• Hallucination, visions, transcendental
experiences are central mostly to romantic poetry
whether it’s Coleridge’s opium addiction or
Wordsworth’s obsession with nature.
• For Keats both the causes of hallucination, stated
in the above definition, can be taken into
consideration.

3. The effect of Hallucination on Keats
• Further his imagination
• Helps him in picturizing the situation

4. Ode to Psyche
•The lines indicating hallucination are:
•“Surely I dreamt to-day, or did I see
The winged Psyche with awaken’d eyes?
I wander’d in a forest thoughtlessly,
And, on the sudden, fainting with surprise…”

5. Ode to Nightingale
• The very first of the ode suggest
hallucination:
• “My heart aches, and a drowsy
numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I
had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to
the drains…”