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Ode to a nightingale   One must be armed with a little knowledge of Greek mythology before taking on Keats Hyperion, for example, is modify with allusions to Miltons Paradise Lost.  After enounceing and re-reading Ode on a Grecian 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 hard to understand.  You cant just sit down and read Keats like a Grimms fairy tale.  Keats must be read with great scrutiny otherwise, youll miss his point.  I only pray that my readings and poor mind will give some sort of justice to Keatss monumental mold Ode to a Nightingale.   The poem begins with Keatss, with his complaint about humanity.  He is filled with heartaches and a drowsy numbness pains and a feeling of forgetfulness as if hemlock I had d fit ink.  Life has brought him to a  state of forgetfulness and is bewildered to find a light-winged Dryad Nightingale of the trees th at is being too happy in thine happiness and singing of summer in full throated ease. Keats would love to conjoin the song of the Nightingale merely has no way except through death, but even death is painful.  Keats doesnt requisite any more pain that life has to offer so he talks about a vintage wine that hath been Coold a long age. . . With beaded bubbles eye blink at the brim and he hopes that he might make whoopie, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim. With the wine Keats hopes to Fade far away. . . from The weariness, the fever, and the fret of life.  Mans drink is his only escape from this life but then he writes that he doesnt want to join nature 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.  If 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 leave this world That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, he wants to Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget everything.