Ode To Nightingale

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Ode to a Nightingale This is a sub-real poem dealing with fantasy, reality, and emotions, in “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats; Keats expresses allusion through his fantasy and reality combined in one. Keats gets “intoxicated” in his own world of imagination as if he was a drunken person; he wants to get away from the real world so he decides to travel through his mind. The whole reason why he likes to be in his own imagination is he is tired of the old dying; he wants to escape reality and go on to a more pleasant world with fairies and forests and Dryads. “The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies, Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs.” Keats shows the reader his view of the world, just be born grow old and die, therefore he wants to go in a world that is more comfortable and pleasant. In the beginning of the poem Keats rubs of as someone who is “intoxicated” but a drunk that is not very bad, “My sense, as though of hemlock (a poison) I had drunk...” Keats is comparing life to the hemlock, stating that life is a poison and beauty is only real while you’re young but as you grow older the lust of beauty diminishes, “ Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,”. Keats wants to follow the Nightingale, in the beginning he does pursuing his wish of escaping in his mind to leave behind all the death and ugliness. The nightingale represents freedom, liberty, and beauty, this is compared with wine because wine is also an escape from all sense of what is real or not; Keats gets intoxicated with his own world of imagination leaving all his preoccupations behind. Sadly the Nightingale starts to fly away screwing with Keats imagination bringing him back to his sense of reality little
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