Ode to a Nightingale
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"Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder" many people believe. Beauty is truth, and truth is knowledge. The definition of Knowledge is: the sum of what is known: the body of truth, information, and principles acquired by mankind is something that is acquired and taught, but also learned from experimentation and numerous successes and failures. Beauty: a quantum characteristic that accounts for the existence and lifetime of the upsilon particle. Thus meaning any characteristic that distinguishes one person from another, however this characteristic is of eternity not just of one lifetime. The two relate because knowledge is not something you may acquire in a lifetime a key detail and deep in-depth understanding of it is far beyond one life time, like beauty.
Knowledge within the poem Ode to a nightingale is not easily found, nor does it jump out at you. Nor can you easily acquire how it relates to beauty. Keats is a mastermind of metaphors and analogies, so how could one distinguish knowledge and beauty off the back? In the poem keat's has a distinct knowledge of the bird, but also that of death...