But unlike Wordsworth, Keats achieves a spiritual or visionary state through the act of creation, through the act of writing poetry. “Ode To A Nightingale Just as Wordsworth found rapture and “visionary gleam” in nature so Keats found something similar in the contemplation of the song of the nightingale. Ode to a Nightingale : MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains : My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 5: But being too happy in thine happiness, That thou, light-wingèd Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot : Of beechen green, and shadows numberless In addition to the title poems it contains three poems often considered among the finest in the English language, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode on Melancholy’, and the subject of tonight’s lecture, ‘Ode to a Nightingale.’ The book was enthusiastically received.
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