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Keats selected poems Ode to a Nightingale is an ode about nature, incorporating some of the basic ideas of nature, a common factor in romantic poetry. From a purely explicit view this ode is about nature, the beauty of a bird the Nightingale and the world it exists in. However there is deeper meaning to this ode concerning Keats and his personal life. In his short life john Keats was no stranger to suffering. When he was eight his father died. His mother and his younger brother Tom, whom he was very close to, died of Tuberculosis. Keats may have thought it was then inevitable for him to contract the disease and die in the same manner they did. Keats died at the age of 25 of the ‘family disease’. Ode to a nightingale has eight stanzas and the influence of the sonnet is clearly evident in it. Each stanza is consistent with 10 lines in each throughout the ode. The first stanza deals with the fact that Keats is in pain. He has ingested a poisonous plant called hemlock and is reeling from the effect of the drug. Keats is beginning to feel the after affects of the drug induced state. From his point of view the hemlock allowed him to experience another world but he is harshly pulled back into reality, as he describes it in line, ‘My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains’ Keats is confessing to his audience that he has become depressed with the real world and needs and ‘antidote’ for his pain.
Approximate Word count = 843
Approximate Pages = 3.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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