Ode to A Nightingale Literary Criticism The Final Essay is a literary criticism and is a 4-5 pages, double-spaced expansion of the attached close reading!

Ode to A Nightingale Literary Criticism The Final Essay is a literary criticism and is a 4-5 pages, double-spaced expansion of the attached close reading! Just expound on it to finish the essay.

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The Close Reading is a one-page, single-spaced mini-essay about any of the assigned PRIMARY sources we’ve read in this course up to the point of the due date.One of the two that you write, ideally, will be developed into the full length (5 pages, double-spaced) Final Essay due at the end of the class, so that by the time you have to write that essay, you’ll already have done half the work and had a couple of relatively low-impact attempts to write literary criticism, which will help you do a much better job on the final essay. So first, don’t get too worked up about these–don’t let them worry you; even if you turn in half a page of confused mumblings, you’ll still get at least a D, or a 60 out of 100 – and you could still theoretically make an A in the class. And by making two attempts at a mini-essay, you’ll improve each time, until by the end of the class, the 5 page essay isn’t going to seem so intimidating. 1
Close Reading of Ode to a Nightingale
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The Character of the Narrator in John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale
Keats’s evaluation of the character in his poem leads us to see that his life is full of
frustration and that life is a vale of tears. Hearing the nightingale’s happiness as it sings has made
him feel happy, too, even if it was for a short time. His unconventional happiness gets quickly
sidelined by a feeling of laziness, which slowly succeeded with the belief that life is unendurable
and painful. His perception of joy in hearing the nightingale sing only makes him more
conscious of the desperation of existence. Keats’s longing to escape from this life makes him turn
to a much more powerful go-between. When his imagination fails him, and he apprehends his
situation, he becomes unsure and forlorn.
Additionally, while encircled by the nightingale’s song, Keats senses that the idea of
death seems way more productive than ever; therefore, has a longing to “cease upon the midnight
with no pain,”( Keats, 1819). If he were to die, this would have no impact on the nightingale
since it would continue to sing joyfully. The nightingale singing also does not affect him since he
would “have ears in vain”( Keats, 1819) hence will not be able to hear.
Furthermore, with a longing to be able to tail the nightingale through its various travels of
the world: to be enthused as the bird, Keats’s desire is assimilated fully with nature rather than
being a contrast. Keats’s lack of happiness makes his desire to understand with life more than to
be just a little contrast. Keats uses his poetry to develop “viewless wings”( Keats, 1819) that
enable him to join the nightingale in the forest and experience nature through memory and faith
that what he sees in his imagination is there. He paints a picture of the flowers that grow in the
forest in their respective colours and sees the obstructed moonlight hidden behind the trees that
only shows up when the wind blows moving the tree branches.
Moreover, Keats compares human life with that of an immortal nightingale voice, “Thou
was not made for death, immortal bird!”( Keats, 1819) Keats laments of how the bird’s view has
eternal life as it is the same voice that has been heard by emperors and clowns, yet with time,
human beings tend to become pale, and sickness brings death to the old. He captures human life
as worrisome, fatigued, and sick, where people complain of their depressing life to each other.
Compared to the nightingale’s songs that are full of life, joy, and happiness, the people’s voices
are perceived to sound like groans. The nightingale’s life seems to be free of burdens and
apprehensions compared to human life till Keats desires to have no memory of his worries like
the nightingale.
In conclusion, Keats is happy while he is still in the forest with the nightingale, but when
he mouths out the word “forlorn,” he is detached from his imagination, and the reality of life
crushes him. The nightingale flies away from him, making him grieve of his vision, failing him
and can no longer know if it was real or not. Through the poem, he has embraced poetry as his
means of expressing himself and embracing his imagination. He provides trivial contrasts
between himself and the nightingale and manages to show his distaste of living as a human
effortlessly.
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Reference
Keats, J. (1819). Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other poems.

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