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A Grecian Urn, Melancholy, a Nightingale and Indolence. ... While each work reveals the beauty of Keats’ poetic capability, “Ode to a Nightingale,” thoroughly explores the poet’s conflicted view of human life. Keats’ style of this particular ode wonderfully applies imagery around the narrative while amplifying the speaker’s thought process to the audience. ... As the speaker falls into a reverie listening to the nightingale sing, he states how his “heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains/[his] sense” (1) and feels as if a strong drug has taken over his body and “emptied some dull opiate to the drains” (3). ... When illustrating the nightingale “of beechen green, and shadows numberless” (9), Keats contrasts the youthful and vividness of green with the countless dark gray shadows that cover it. ... The nightingale helps him reach the state of accepting deal since he has been listening to it sing “for many a time” (51). ... Keats then moves his awareness of his own mortality in the preceding stanza to the awareness of the nightingale’s immortality. While the bird will die on a literal level, it will live forever to the speaker for he informs the nightingale that he “wast not born for death, immortal bird” (61). The nightingale and its song symbolize the continuing presence of joy in no only his life, but also the lives of people “in ancient days” (64) who also sought the need to escape a sad existence like “the sad heart of Ruth…/[who] stood in tears amid the alien corn” (66-7) and the difficulty one might face “on the foam/of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn” (69-70). Providing past examples of people who could have benefit from the nightingale’s music shows the speaker’s ability to think of both mortality and immortality.
Approximate Word count = 1402
Approximate Pages = 5.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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