Analysis of Ode to a Nightingale by Keats

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English

 

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January 17, 2016

 

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Although the poem begins by describing the song of an actual nightingale, the nightingale goes on to become a symbol of the immortality of nature. In lines 1-3 Keats expresses a wish to dull and numb his senses artificially. He wishes to use "hemlock" or "some dull opiate" to numb his pain. He also makes a reference to Lethe, the river that those who are about to be reincarnated must drink from to forget their old lives when he says in line 4 that he has to "Lethe-wards?sunk"...
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He also makes a reference to Lethe, the river that those who are about to be reincarnated must drink from to forget their old lives when he says in line 4 that he has to "Lethe-wards?sunk". However it is not out of envy of the joy in the bird's song but because he is too happy that he wishes to numb his senses...
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