![]() ![]() The border of the cup should be glowing red with the rich colour of the wine. There should be beads on the surface of the wine cup just like the bubbles on the Hippocrene water coming out of the earth. The drink should be blushing with its redness. Drinking from it was supposed to give poetic inspiration. The winged horse Pegasus created it by stamping its hoof into the ground. Hippocrene is the name of a spring on Mount Helicon, the haunt of Muses. Keats here identifies wine with the water of Hippocrene. The poet again seeks a beaker full of wine produced in the southern country. It also reminds him of dance, song and merry-making.įull of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, It reminds him of the merry festivities in honour of Flora, the Goddess of flowers in Roman mythology. The poet wishes for a cup of wine that has been cooled and stored for years under the earth. ![]() The language of intoxication continues in the second stanza. O, for a draught of vintage! that hath beenĬool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,ĭance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! Advertisements The nightingale sings spontaneously to celebrate the charms of summer. There are beech trees in that plot and they make countless patches of light and shade. Like a wood nymph, the nightingale sits on some trees and sings a melodious song in ecstatic joy. The poet compares the nightingale to “light-winged Dryad”, i.e., a wood-nymph in classical mythology. In his heart he feels a sensation of pain because of excessive joy. The poet says that he is not jealous of the bird’s happiness, but he is too happy listening to the song. Now, Keats reveals to us what causes his pain, numbness and forgetfulness. ![]() ![]() Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees He feels as if he has fallen in Lethe, a river in Greek mythology. Opium causes the poet to be lost in oblivion. Or rather, it is as if he has taken some kind of opiate drug just a minute ago. He feels as though he has drunk hemlock, a plant which produces poisonous juice. One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains Ode to a Nightingale ExplanationĬritical Appreciation of Ode to Nightingale | Ode by John Keats Stanza 1 Keats is ultimately called back to his ‘sole self’ (reality) and wonders whether he actually overheard the nightingale’s song or whether it had been a dream.It once soothed the heart of people in ancient days. He notes that the nightingale’s song is immortal. He thinks that it will be the richest moment for him to die with the song ringing in his ears. In the darkness of the forest, he follows the bird. At the next moment he finds himself with the nightingale. Keats declares that he will not drink wine, but he will instead achieve bliss by writing this poem.He points out that the bird is ignorant of the woes and sufferings of the world. The poet longs to escape from the world under the effect of the nightingale’s song.He is very much overwhelmed with happiness at the bird’s song. As the poet listens to the song of the nightingale he feels pain in his heart because of excessive joy. ![]()
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