One of the poems that caught my attention happened to be a work titled, “Ode to a Nightingale”. In this poem the narrator (Keats), uses his sense of sight and imagination to express his current mood on the natural beings surrounding him. He constructs this poem toward what we are to understand is a “nightingale”, a singing mythical bird of some sort. Keats explains to his audience that happiness can be found in nature in the same what that this “dryad” had done to him. Keats expresses to his audience that he too would like to endure the same happiness as the nightingale, but he is constantly held back due to the pain that he is experiencing. He feels as if the only way he can relate himself to the nightingale is through his own death and by his own thoughts, and even then his happiness is unattainable due to the circumstances. We are able to see this in the sixth stanza (line 55) of the poem where he
One of the poems that caught my attention happened to be a work titled, “Ode to a Nightingale”. In this poem the narrator (Keats), uses his sense of sight and imagination to express his current mood on the natural beings surrounding him. He constructs this poem toward what we are to understand is a “nightingale”, a singing mythical bird of some sort. Keats explains to his audience that happiness can be found in nature in the same what that this “dryad” had done to him. Keats expresses to his audience that he too would like to endure the same happiness as the nightingale, but he is constantly held back due to the pain that he is experiencing. He feels as if the only way he can relate himself to the nightingale is through his own death and by his own thoughts, and even then his happiness is unattainable due to the circumstances. We are able to see this in the sixth stanza (line 55) of the poem where he