1. Ode to a Nightingale
... as obvious in within the text. The narrator says that the music is fled, perhaps the music he remembers from Southern summer life, but the fleeting music might just as easily be directed towards the nightingale as he "Singest of summer in full-throated ease."(10), which contrasts with the narration consisting of the slighting difficulties of forgetting, loss, pain, and envy ... towards the world he remembers, "Fast fading violets"(47) and "pastoral eglantine"(46) are once again brought to the foreground with pleasure, but just like the "Provencal song" bringing the remembrance of summer...
- Word Count: 1517
- Approx Pages: 6
- Grade Level: Undergraduate