... suffering of human life. In the Ode to a Nightingale the speaker, which we could assume to be Keats himself, feels heartache as a result of listening to a nightingale singing its songs of summer. We could assume that in this green and beautiful country environment the speaker seems to feel heartache as a reaction to the intense happiness he felt when listening to the bird and its blissful ignorance or ... maybe it was just jealousy but it doesn't appear to be the latter. With this reaction the ... follow the nightingale and it's song. Suddenly, surrounded by the bird's song, the speake...

• Word Count: 952
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and that Keats has a preoccupation with the impossibility of possessing reality. This theme runs directly through the core of his Odes of 1819. Ode to a Nightingale expresses Keats's almost unbearable happiness induced by its song. The poetry itself is a catalyst for Keats's obvious intentions between two opposing escapisms ... transitory nature of human life; and by the end of stanza six recognises that the Nightingale would not cease to sing if he were to die "Still wouldst thou sing, an I have ears in vain- To thy high requiem become a sod." By this time, Keats is immortalising the bi...

• Word Count: 2837
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate