LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY
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Question
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“Ode to a Nightingale” focuses on ____
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How pleasures are fleeting and life cannot continue forever
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The fall of man into sin
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The futility of artistic creation
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The unfortunate conclusion of the French Revolution
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The poem focuses on a speaker standing in a dark forest, listening to the beguiling and beautiful song of the nightingale bird. This provokes a deep and meandering meditation by the speaker on time, death, beauty, nature, and human suffering (something the speaker would very much like to escape!).
Detailed explanation-2: -Keats wants to escape from life, not by means of wine, but by a much more powerful agent, the imagination. The second main thought and the main theme of the poem is Keats’ wish that he might die and be rid of life altogether, providing he could die as easily and painlessly as he could fall asleep.
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