...an emotional commitment to our solution. The power of language In The Eve ofSt Agnes, Keats writes: Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast. As Robert Thouless points out in his book Straight and Crooked Thinking, this verse is loaded with emotive...

...the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, A shielded scutcheon bhtth'd with blood of queens and kings. Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeleine's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands,...

...Roberts, my sixth form English teacher, was fond of this example from Keats's poem The Eve of St Agnes: Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw...soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint ... He liked to paraphrase: As Mary knelt to pray, the cold moon coming through the stained-glass window...