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Commentary: Ode to a nightingale by john keats
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... COMMENTARY: ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE BY JOHN KEATS The "Ode to a nightingale" by John Keats is a poem that is multi-layered and can have many meanings shown through the rich imagery of the poem. The poems illustrates a journey taken through imagination, the poet longs for release and escape and chooses his imagination to get there it goes from harsh reality of the real world to the ideal, perfect world. The natural world is used in the poem to express some of the truths and perceptions of the human mind, such as the change in human nature and the short lives of humans compared to the everlasting song of the nightingale. The contrasts portrayed in the poem, the illusion vs. reality is shown through juxtaposition of factors in the real and ideal world. These are the mixture of pain and joy, life and death, morality and immortality these are
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