He talks about mortality and expression. When listening to the nightingale’s song, the speaker wished to abandon the human world to follow the bird’s carefree existence. The speaker believes the bird to be immortal. Generations have listened to the bird, imaginably, the same song helped many overcome sadness. The speaker, when referring to the nightingale, may be addressing his imagination. He imagines his adventure with the nightingale, and when he awakens, he wonders if he should wake up or go back to the dream. The overall mood of the poem is dark and mysterious. The speaker is depressed and thinking of death and human mortality. In the second stanza, he speaks of drinking something to fade away and die. “O for a beaker full of the warm South, / … That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, / And with thee fade away into the forest dim” (15,19-20). The poem specifies that it is an ode in the name Ode to a Nightingale. An ode is a type of lyrical poem that addresses a specific subject. An ode is a long, serious, and formal poem. This poem is about the nightingale and the speaker’s imaginative visions of
He talks about mortality and expression. When listening to the nightingale’s song, the speaker wished to abandon the human world to follow the bird’s carefree existence. The speaker believes the bird to be immortal. Generations have listened to the bird, imaginably, the same song helped many overcome sadness. The speaker, when referring to the nightingale, may be addressing his imagination. He imagines his adventure with the nightingale, and when he awakens, he wonders if he should wake up or go back to the dream. The overall mood of the poem is dark and mysterious. The speaker is depressed and thinking of death and human mortality. In the second stanza, he speaks of drinking something to fade away and die. “O for a beaker full of the warm South, / … That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, / And with thee fade away into the forest dim” (15,19-20). The poem specifies that it is an ode in the name Ode to a Nightingale. An ode is a type of lyrical poem that addresses a specific subject. An ode is a long, serious, and formal poem. This poem is about the nightingale and the speaker’s imaginative visions of