... 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...

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