Ode to a Nightingale

• Plot: “Ode to a Nightingale” is a poem in which the speaker interacts with a nightingale, yearning for the simplicity and beauty of the bird’s world while grappling with his own mortality.
• Structure & Language Techniques: The poem is structured as an ode with iambic pentameter and employs language techniques, such as symbolism, metaphors, and personification to capture the narrator’s emotional state.
• Themes & Linking Poems: Key themes include mortality, nature, longing, and the contrast between the ideal and reality, which can be linked to other Keats poems like “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to Autumn.”
• Key Quotes: Notable quotes include “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,” depicting the speaker’s profound grief, and “Away! away! for I will fly to thee,” reflecting his desire to escape reality.