![]() This characterizes the reason as to why Keats wishes to “fade away into the forest dim” with the Nightingale, whose “singest of summer in full-throated ease” begins to represent another world for Keats, one where the despair of man-kind is unknown, where the “weariness, the fever and the fret” ceases to exist. “Ode to a Nightingale” begins with a soporific heaviness, an intense description of “drowsy numbness” and the “” that encroaches into this state despite its oxymoronic nature. “To Autumn,” however, is an unqualified celebration of Nature and of change, which suggest Keats’s ultimate maturation of thought, whereby he ceases to desire the impossible, instead replacing his thought with the acknowledgement and acceptance that nature will continue to proceed, despite the fact that he won’t be there to witness the flux of time. Similarly, in his sonnet, “Bright Star, Would I were as Steadfast as Thou Art,” Keats realizes that his worship of an ideal world would negate the happiness he is experiencing which leads him to reject his former yearnings. ![]() ![]() Keats’s preoccupation with the inescapable precession of time and mutability is evident in all three poems: “Ode to a Nightingale,”, the ode “To Autumn” and the sonnet, “Bright Star, Would I were as Steadfast as Thou Art.” In his “Ode to a Nightingale,” the bird’s singing becomes a symbol for Keats, of a place that is impervious to human despair and constant in its same eternal song he wishes to escape to it before realizing that it would cast him into a state of non-existence, whereby he retracts.
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