![]() He adds that he will now rise to the happiness of the nightingale on the wings of his poetic imagination. He rejects the idea of escaping to the nightingale’s happy world through grapy wine. Here the poet tells the nightingale that he will fly to its world by means of poetic fancy. Only a few are lucky to live upto old age, in which sadness overpowers them and old age paralysis shakes their limbs.Ĭontext and Explanation- This passage has been extracted from the “Ode To A Nightingale” composed by John Keats. Then they are reduced to a mere skele, and ultimately they die. Here, in the human world, youngmen fall a prey to consumption and turn pale. So the poet wishes to escape to the nightingale’s world from his own where people groan under the weight of sufferings. The nightingale has never experienced these things. He wants to escape from the extreme fatigue of life, the fever of hopes and fears, and the peevishness born of despairs. Here the poet explains why he wants to take peg of strong wine, he says that he wants to have wine in order to attain a complete imaginary escape from his own world. And the poet wants to have such wine so that he may drink of it, forget his own world of miseries, and escape to the happy world of the nightingale singing on a tree at night.Ĭontext and Explanation- These lines have been taken from the poem “Ode To A Nightingale” composed by John Keats. ![]() It should also be endowed with such real poetic inspiration that was present in the water of the fountain called “Hippocrene” situated on Mount Helicon, according to Greek mythology. It should also stain a man’s lips purpole when he drinks of it, and should inspire him to drink more of it. It should be red and full of such head-like bubbles that may invite a man to drink that wine up. He tensely wishes that he had a beaker full of the grapy wine produced in the southern, warm, part of France. Here the poet express his wish for some grapy wine full of poetic inspiration. By these references the poet means that the wine should be of such a quality that it may take his mind away into the worlds of merry making, singing and dancing.Ĭontext and Explanation- This passage has been taken from the poem “Ode To A Nightingale” composed by John Keats. It should also excite visions of the winemakers of Provence, France, singing and dancing on the beaches under the burning sun. It should be such wine that its effect may excite in his mind the visions of the ancient Romans celebrating in the green countryside the May-Day festival called “ Floria” in honour of Flora, their goddess of Spring and flowers. He wishes that he had a peg of the wine produced from grapes and kept buried in a deep cellar for a long time. Here the poet expresses his wish for a dose of grapy wine to help him escape to the world of the nightingale. The use of the word “Dryad” is an example of Keats Hellenism.Ĭontext and Explanation- This extract has been taken from the poem “Ode To A Nightingale” composed by John Keats. : A Dryad is a wood nymph, according to Greek mythology. ![]() And therefore, he fell into the present state of sleepiness in which he is losing consciousness. ![]() A sleep-like state is taking hold of his mind, as if he took a dose of hemlock or that of some sleep-inducing opiated drug, to the last drops, one minute ago. He says that there is a continued sweet rain in his heart. And there has begun a sweet pain in his heart because of excessive. He implies that a nightingale is singing charmingly. Here the poet describes the effect of a nightingale’s sweet song upon himself. Perhaps the self-same……….in fiery lands forlomĬontext and Explanation- This extract has been taken from the poem “ Ode To A Nightingale” composed by John Keats.Already with thee! ………………………… glooms and winding mossy ways.Away! away! for I will fly………perplexes and retards:.Fade for away, dissolve………and spectre-thin, and dies.O for a breaker full of………away into the forest dim.O for a draught of………….and sunburnt mirth!.Tis not through envy……….summer in full-throated ease.My heart aches,……….and Lethe-wards had sunk.
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