Q. What word is like a bell to the speaker in Stanza VII?
Adieu
Q. Why does the poet say fancy Cannot cheat so well?
He admits that his attempts to use his imagination (“fancy”) to “cheat” his way into the nightingale’s world have not been as effective as he would have liked. Although “fancy” is famed for being able to create new worlds, the speaker has not been successful at permanently escaping the everyday world.
Q. What does the speaker of this poem want to forget in Ode to a Nightingale?
What does the speaker of the poem “Ode to a Nightingale” want to forget? The speaker, listening to the beautiful song of the nightingale, wants to forget all the problems that go with human consciousness. Keats would like to fly away and be amid the beautiful flowers…
Q. What does the nightingale do at the end of stanza 1?
The nightingale, sitting amid the shadows, sings effortlessly. This beautiful song mesmerizes the drowsy speaker so that he wishes he could drink it in as if it were a cool, aged wine tasting of a beautiful green country. The song causes the speaker to think of dancing and laughter. Hope this helps!!
Q. What does Nightingale symbolize for the poet?
The superficial scope of the poem is the nightingale, which represents both nature and death. This bird flies around, and lands in a tree, forever singing its sad song, and connecting the reader as well as Keats to the ideas of immortality. Keats also compares the nightingale to a “Dryad of the trees” (l.
Q. What are the romantic characteristics in Ode to a Nightingale?
In the poem “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats, the poet expresses a Romantic nostalgia for the past and alludes to it several times. He ties this in with ideas of beauty, joy, calm and pastoral scenery. In this, John keats appears to express an overpowering urge to run away into escapism.
Q. Why does the poet wish to leave the human world in Ode to a Nightingale?
Keats contrasts the euphoria inherent in the song of the bird with his own unhappiness, melancholy, and sense of darkness. The poet wishes to “leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim” to escape from the pain, sickness, and death of humanity.
Q. What career did Keats give up to become a poet?
John Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon in 1811. He broke off the apprenticeship in 1814 and went to London, where he worked as a dresser, or junior house surgeon, at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals. His literary interests had crystallized by this time, and after 1817 he devoted himself entirely to poetry.
Q. What things cause suffering to humans?
Sadness and disappointment are the biggest source of suffering. Another one is the lack of noble qualities and good manners in human beings. Our unhealthy and evil ways also our spirits. Such thing are despondence, dearth of noble natures, gloomy days, unhealthy and overdarkened ways.
Q. Who is the main human figure in the poem obituary?
In the first stanza of ‘Obituary’ the speaker begins by telling the reader who died– his father. The speaker focuses on what the father left behind. There were utterly normal things that have taken on new importance.
Q. What does conceit mean in the Bible?
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