Ode to a Nightingale: Summary and Analysis
John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale begins with birdsong but soon enters a far more troubled space. The speaker longs to leave behind illness, worry, ageing, and death, yet the beauty of the nightingale’s song makes that escape feel possible for a moment. Written in May 1819 at Hampstead, the poem came after Keats had
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