1. Ode to a Nightingale
... himself which is Keats."(Inglis 127) The statement, "Fled is that music"(80), in reference to line 14's "Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!", in a stanza full of cool wine, warm tastes, and "true" poetic inspiration, celebrates music and revelry that, receding with the bird-song, fades the narrator into the "forest dim"(21) This celebration, realization, and receding is ... pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!" (55-60) This obvious authority given to death must however be qualified; the question of life or death was tested with wine and Poesy, both of which had ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate