Examples of Synaesthetic Images

      "Ode to a Nightingale"

    In some MELODIOUS plot / Of BEECHEN GREEN (stanza I)

        Combines sound ("melodious") and sight ("beechen green")

    TASTING of Flora and the country green,
       Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!
    O for a beaker of the warm South, (stanza II)

        Here the poet TASTES the visual ("Flora and the country green"), activity ("Dance"), sound ("Provencal song"), and mood or pleasure ("mirth"); also the visual ("sunburnt") is combined with a pleasurable emotional state ("mirth"). With the beaker there is finally something to taste, but what is being tasted is temperature ("warm") and a location ("South").

    But here here is no LIGHT,
    Save what from heaven is with the BREEZES BLOWN (stanza IV)

        Combines sight ("light") with touch/movement ("breezes blown"). This image describes light filtering through leaves moved by the wind.

    Nor what SOFT INCENSE HANGS upon the boughs (stanza V)

        Combines touch ("soft"), weight ("hangs"), and smell ("incense).

"Eve of St. Agnes"

    The SILVER, SNARLING trumpets 'gan to chide

        Combines vision ("silver," the color of the trumpets) and sound (trumpets produce a "silver" sound).

"Isabella; or, The Pot of Gold"

    And TASTE the MUSIC of that VISION pale. (stanza XLIX)

        Now it's your turn. What three sensory experiences are combined in this line?