Both Keats and Tennyson are celebrated for the pictorial element in their poetry — their rich, sensuous imagery, vivid word-painting, and ability to create visual scenes through language. Keats's 'Ode to Autumn' and Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott' exemplify this quality. Critics have noted both poets' extraordinary capacity to paint pictures with words, making this their most shared poetic characteristic.