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james

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on: Jul 20, 2018
In the opening stanza to what things does the speaker compare the effectof the nightingales song?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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How could the nightingale singing in the poem be the same voice heard inthe ancient world? What point is Keats making about the permanence of nature?
 
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rekilledagain

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Reply #1 on: Jul 20, 2018
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  • He compares the effect of the songwhich, he says, makes his heart ache and fills him with a drowsy numbnessto drinking hemlock or some other opiate. The speaker describes the song as taking him Lethe-wards, which is to suggest that the song helps him forget lifes sorrows. The seemingly magical nature of this process is underscored by his comparison of the bird to a Dryad a wood nymph out of Greek mythology.



Answer to Question 2


  • All music, all beauty, are part of undying nature. Nature, for Keats, is eternal; the bird is not a mortal creature who will die just as he will die, but is part of a natural world that knows no death.



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