A Critique and Exploitation by Megan Certeza Ode To A Nightingale A Critique and Exploitation by Megan Certeza

Inferences and Comments on A Short Notice Ode to a nightingale in the first paragraph refers to an overdose of a kind of medicine of hemlock and or opium. The most popular opium derivative was laudanum, a tincture of opium mixed with wine or water. Laudanum, called the 'aspirin of the nineteenth century,' was widely used in Victorian households as a painkiller, recommended for a broad range of ailments including cough, diarrhea, rheumatism, 'women's troubles', cardiac disease and even delirium.

Ode to a nightingale refers to this feeling of melancholia due not to being “drunk” or unhappy, but to being too happy to the point where Keats as the author refers to one, a countryside where we can infer that he is longing for the countryside or of the bliss of being free as being bottles of beer, or fine wine. O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!

He even refers to the beer or wine as the South. 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 He even refers to the beer or wine as the South. We can also infer that since Hipppocrene means a fountain on Mt. Helicon that this is a Greek tragic poem.

The whole meaning of Ode To A Nightingale The whole meaning of John Keats’ An Ode to A Nightingale is that he probably wanted to be the nightingale and was dreaming of where the nightingale had been such as the Hippocrenes, as he also describes a warm summer’s day. A deeper meaning of the poem is that when he describes old age that he will become a nightingale. He/she since there is no reference to sex meaning gender in the poem.

Another Inference On The Poem We can infer that the author may be talking about death or a suicidal inference of himself because he repeats adieu at the end which would mean goodbye in German. We can also infer his last wish could’ve or would’ve been wishing for wine at the end of his life.

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