Ode to a Nightingale
One must be armed with a little knowledge of Greek mythology before taking on Keats; Hyperion, for example, is filled with allusions to Milton's Paradise Lost. After reading and re-reading Ode on a Grecian Urn I decided that it would be best to only comment on Ode to a Nightingale (because I'm baffled with Keats). I found him very hard to understand. You can't just sit down and read Keats like a Grimm's fairy tale. Keats must be read with great scrutiny; otherwise, you'll miss his point. I only pray that my readings and poor mind will give some sort of justice to Keats's monumental work: "Ode to a Nightingale."
The poem begins with Keats's, with his complaint about humanity. He is filled with "heartaches and a drowsy numbness pains" and a feeling of forgetfulness as if "hemlock I had drunk." Life has brought him to a state of forgetfulness and is bewildered to find a "light-winged Dryad [Nightingale] of the trees" that is "being too happy in thine happiness" and singing "of summer in full throated ease." Keats would love to join the song of the Nightingale but has no way except through death, but even death is painful. Keats doesn't want any more pain that life has to offer so he talks about a "vintage [wine] that hath been Cool'd a long age. . . With beaded bubbles winking at the brim" and he hopes that he "might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim." With the wine Keats hopes to "Fade far away. . . [from] The weariness, the fever, and the fret" of life. Man's drink is his only escape from this life but then he writes that he doesn't want to join nature and "fly to" the Nightingale "charioted by" wine but of poetic imagination. Because too much wine would bring pain in the morning and would only stop pain for a while. Once the drug has run its final course he would be in more pain then before. If only this world could fade away so that he could join the world of nature where he could be "too happy in thine happiness." He wants to leave this world: "That I might drink, and leave the world unseen," he wants to "Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget" everything.
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He and Cesar 's relationship would probably not be ruined because Hank would have seen the warning signs and left. He would have been more vigilant rather than turning a blind eye to Cesar questionable activities. Like Cesar 's extensive drug use, a plethora of illegal guns, and admittance that he sells these on the black market.
"John Keats." British Literature 1780-1830. Comp. Anne K. Mellor and Richard E. Matlak. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1996. 1254-56. Print.
It seems to me that it 's really quite difficult to argue against helping the homeless, yet, somehow some people do, and legislation gets passed, and services get denied. The most common arguments against helping the homeless tend to be more like rationalizations of ignorance, indifference, or superiority. 'Subtle ' arguments against. Someone might say something like 'I see this guy everyday; everyday for, like, two years, and I 've given him change, and given him change, and but he 's still there, and I 'm just like 'Jeeze guy, like, why don 't you just get a job already? ' ' Little dehumanizing slights. Assumptions of an incredible mass of unknowables; things which one supposes are true for themselves (or of the world as a whole.) are then supposed to be true for others as well, which is, of course, incredibly reductive and untrue in a great many cases. We are not all the same people in the same circumstances, and not everyone can do quite the same things. Not everyone has the same 'luck '—by which I mean something like quality-of-facticity.
...s the speaker in the ode. Thus we see he became inspired to write this song of praise to autumn. He shows that anything can inspire someone to write, not just the beauty of spring. Thus we see the imagery Keats employs move from the scenic and joyous picture portrayed in the first stanza, to the harvest time in the second and finally we are confronted with the melancholy images in the last stanza. One realises, Keats was inspired by many things to complete this ode. Thus, we see influences of the Pastoral period, Greek myth and nature. Keats challenges the idea that spring usually inspires music, by showing the reader all the different places one draws inspiration from. Thus anything can inspire music or a musician if he allows it too. In addition, Keats believed that music does not just have to invoke feelings of joy, but it is still music if it makes one feel sad.
In the short story “Nightingale” Tobias Wolff creates an alternate reality to emphasize men’s confusion in the world and what they have to sacrifice to become what society believes is the perfect man. As Dr. Booth drives to try and find the academy he remembers “as a boy, he himself [wants] nothing more than a chance to dream” (1349). This dreaming stops the moment he attends the academy. He remembers the academy and how the clock’s “hands frozen” and the judgment he faced as he was made to become one of the world’s robotic soldiers (1347).Dr. Booth loses his internal life and imagination the second he chooses to take the path that society has chosen for the men of the world. He gives in to the pressure of what a man is supposed to be and adheres
From the very title we find that this “Ode” is different. It is the “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” as opposed to “Ode to a Nightingale,” or “Ode to Psyche.” The word “on” provides a little more interpretive flexibility. On one hand, the word on can be taken to mean “about” or “concerning,” suggesting that this is an ode about a Grecian Urn. This is in fact true. However, it can also suggest that this ode is taking place quite literally on the Grecian Urn—the ode itself would therefore not be Keats’ own poetry, but the actual Urn. This interpretation is backed up by in Stanza I. when Keats calls the Urn “Sylvan historian, who canst thus express / A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme” (lines 3-4). The urn can express the tale more sweetly because it presents the ode without the passage of time. Thus all the paintings are forever frozen and ever becoming, and any fulfillment would betray potential.
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