Ode to Nightingale Analysis Essay In the poem, "Ode to a Nightingale," written by John Keats, the speaker attempts to use a nightingale as a means of escaping the realities of human life. Throughout the poem Keats gradually discovers the concepts of creative expression and the morality of human life. The speaker is in search of the freedom that the nightingale so elegantly sings about. The nightingale's song of freedom is an expression of pure …showed first 75 words of 1658 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1658 total…used extreme differences throughout the entirety of the poem. His emotions range from dark to light, but he never touches any melancholy ones. The use of drugs and alcohol in the poem seem to make the poem become funny and ironic at the same time when mixed with lines containing sobering experience. Keats may not have meant that he actually wanted wine or something else, but just wanted the association of feeling high and carefree.