This paper discusses how one of the common qualities possessed by successful poets throughout the ages is the profound ability
to
stimulate the senses through subtle and original means. It demonstrates the truth of this statement by closely examining the works of several poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley and the ways in which they persuade their readers to be led by their poetry. It looks at the manner in which the poets employ conventions such as simile,
metaphor, rhyme and syntax, to stimulate the reader's subconscience into sensing subtle feelings in the precise way intended.