Believe that "Ode to a Nightingale" is John Keats' story depicting his long endured suffering

... The Suicide Note I believe that "Ode to a Nightingale" is John Keats' story depicting his long endured suffering and how badly he wanted this suffering to end. From the short biography in The Norton Anthology of English Literature we learn of Keats' traumatic childhood years when at just eight years old his father was killed from an accident and at the age of fourteen his mother died of tuberculosis. The book also tells about Keats being forced into medical school by his guardian to become an apothecary surgeon, the illness and death of his brother Tom, and Keats' unrequited love for a young girl named Fanny Brawne. Keats also contracted tuberculosis, which coupled with his poverty and an uncompromising dedication to poetry made a marriage with Fanny impossible. The drug references in "Ode to a Nightingale" lead me to believe that he may have taken some sort of pain

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