... seem to be contradictory, but which in fact are very close together. These truths are those of poetic imagination and those of observable realities. The narrator is pulled in conflicting directions "of life and death, the sensuous pleasures of the word and the transcendence of the everyday". Stanza seven offers immortality to the Nightingale, and consequently offers this same idealised notion ... ...

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