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Ode to a nightingale   One must be gird with a little knowledge of Greek mythology before taking on Keats Hyperion, for example, is filled with allusions to Miltons Paradise Lost.  After reading and re-reading Ode on a Greek Urn I decided that it would be best to only comment on Ode to a Nightingale (because Im baffled with Keats).  I found him very firmly to understand.  You cant just sit down and read Keats like a Grimms sprite tale.  Keats must be read with great scrutiny otherwise, youll miss his point.  I only pray that my readings and poor mind will give about sort of justice to Keatss monumental work Ode to a Nightingale.   The poem begins with Keatss, with his ill about humanity.  He is filled with heartaches and a drowsy numbness straining and a feeling of forgetfulness as if hemlock I had drunk.  Life has brought him to a  state of forgetfulness and is bewildered to find a light-winged Dryad Nightingale of the trees that is being overly happy in thine happiness and singing of summer in full phase of the moon throated ease. Keats would love to join the song of the Nightingale but has no way except through death, but even death is painful.  Keats doesnt pauperization any more pain that life has to offer so he talks about a vintage vino that hath been Coold a long age. . . With form bubbles winking at the brim and he hopes that he might drink, and recant the human race unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim. With the wine Keats hopes to go across farthermost away. . . from The weariness, the fever, and the fret of life.  Mans drink is his only escape from this life but thence he writes that he doesnt want to join record and fly to the Nightingale charioted by wine but of poetic imagination.  Because too much wine would bring pain in the morning and would only stop pain for a while.   Once the drug has run its final course he would be in more pain then before.  I f only this world could fade away so that he could join the world of nature where he could be too happy in thine happiness.   He wants to block this world That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, he wants to Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget everything.