Ode to a Nightingale: Dreams and imagination

Question 1

Structure shows that only vision stemming from the imagination will work:

Answer 1

“Drowsy numbness pains my sense”- nothingness, close to death, not like the dreams of coleridge, thudding “d”
After description of vintage and its invocation of summer “that i might drink,”- medial caesura, introduces I, and “drink” mirrors “drunk” this same unpleasant realisation of self
Whereas imagination triggers much more immersive experience

Question 2

Overwhelming sensory experience from imagination

Critic re: darkness

Answer 2

“tender is the night”
“soft incense”
“embalmed darkness”
Little says that the darkness is conductive of dream like state, comments on lack of one sense others hightened

Question 3

Magic dream

Answer 3

“Queen moon” “thrown” “starry Fays” and the allusion to midsummer nights dream with “violets” “musk-rose” “Eglantine”

Question 4

Vision is not total: humanity lingers subconsciously, shadow of death

WRONG CRITIC

Answer 4

“embalmed darkness” “soft incense hangs upon the boughs” “haunt of flies”
“I have been half in love with easeful death”
Kappel: in world of fancy he can avoid temporality and humanity

Question 5

Temporary vision

LAU: associative theory

Answer 5

easy to get into, easy to get out of, because of Keats negative capability
Mirrored structure
2-3 Fade– away! away!
7-8 Forlorn –adieu! adieu!
“forlorn! the very word is like a bell
to toll me back from thee to my soul self”
“fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam’d to do, deceiving elf”–imagination personified into an exteral being, magic is against him now

Question 6

Leaves speaker addled : Vatic non vatic

Answer 6

Was it a vision or a waking dream?
…Do I wake or sleep?
Prophet, or random and meaningless