Premium Content Reconciling Mortality and Immortality in John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale"
By Corey Wrenn - October 26, 2004
In John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale," a despairing speaker overhears a nightingale in the depths of a far away forest. The speaker yearns to leave behind his physical world and join the bird in its metaphysical world. The nightingale sings of a world where there is no pain, there are muted senses, and life is immortal: the opposite of the…
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