Techniques- Techniques Keats uses in this poem include:

Imagery: Through the extensive descriptive language present in this

poem we are able to taste, feel, hear and see what Keats has witnessed
on his Journey. "The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves." here
Keats appeals to our sense of hearing to help create the scene in our own
minds.
We can see the nightingale through his description - "That thou, lightwinged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot, Of beechen green"
and taste the poem through - "Tasting of Flora" and feel his journey as
"the country green breezes blown, Through verdurous glooms and
winding mossy ways."
Metaphor and Personification: When describing wine with "beaded bubbles
winking at the brim" the bubbles are round and bead like and he gives
them the ability and character to wink. In "Where Beauty cannot keep her
lustrous eyes, tender is the night", beauty is sexy and female and the
night has the ability to be tender and, "And haply the Queen-Moon is on
her throne" the moon is a queen sitting on her throne. This too is imagery
- it promotes amazing mental scenes.
Tone and Rhythm: The tone of the poem is at first sad but then climaxes
to a joyful escape from reality and mortality. Keats creates this tone
through his choice of words, i.e. in the first stanza Keats describes his
current state as sorrowful and unhappy, and this prompts us to
sympathize with his current situation. "My heart aches and a drowsy
numbness pains my sense." However Keats changes the tone of the poem
to convey the change that has taken place in him as a result of the
journey. The poem now seems more cheerful and sorrowful thoughts are
put away. "I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed
darkness, guess each sweet."
The rhythm of the poem also helps to add to the poem. Each stanza
consists of 10 lines with a rhyming word every 2nd line, the rhyming
however is inconsistent. This is done to make the poem more enjoyable
and easier to read, it also helps with the flow of the poem while it is being
read aloud.
Effective at Presenting a Journey- An imaginative journey is a change that
takes place as a result of the human imagination. Keats journey is him
flying away with the nightingale and escaping reality, but because it
cannot take place in the physical world due to the laws of physics etc, it
had to take place in Keats's imagination, thus making it an imaginative

journey. The change in Keats is the fact that he knows how he can escape
the reality of his illness through the power of his imagination and this is
conveyed through various writing techniques, that have been previously
stipulated above.