= Questions & Answers =
2. Do you read Ode To a Nightingale as a poem of escape?
3. How does Keats show the power of imagination to transcend reality in the Ode To a Nightingale?
4. Consider Ode To a Nightingale as a representative Ode of Keats.
5. "Ode To a Nightingale, unlike Keats' other Odes, has no single central theme"-- Explain.
6. Explain:
"O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;"
7. Explain:
"Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—
To thy high requiem become a sod."
8. Explain:
"Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;"
9. Explain:
"Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:"
10. Explain:
"The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn."
11. Explain:
"Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf."
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