Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Stanza 2 ode to Nightingale


In stanza 2 Keats tries to display a long lost desire to see a moment of happiness within his consciousness with the drug f opium. The clue that the author desires opium towards the end of the stanza where he mentions a liquid that opens the world he enjoys, in which he wishes to escape the reality of the present moment. Also it appears that the stanza describes of a more natural approach to what happiness is for Keats when he describes the desire for the country side of the world. However, I believe Keats misunderstood seeing the beauty of the world through opium is not the answer. Perhaps opium opened a new world for the people who used them who wished to see an entirely different world from the one they lived in. The time of Keats wasn’t any better than ours apparently.

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  1. "O for a draught of vintage! that hath been" is a desire for wine and he further describes where the wine would come from. I think that stanza two is about a desire for alcohol and also about him being imaginative; he excesses some of the powers of gained through the faculty of imagination. Stanza two does describe a desire to escape from reality by means of indulging in drinking wine and perhaps getting drunk. Maybe it is a desire for opium because apparently Keats is a junkie. Stanza one talks about a desire for opium or hemlock which further suggest a desire for sedation in general.

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