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Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale.' (John Keats)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19930922
Author:Park, Charlsie Bray

John Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale' explicitly suggests the need for a drink of wine because of its lengthy descriptions and references to various forms of drink and implicitly because the stanzas are roughly shaped like rummers or footed goblets. This theory is consistent with Keats's experimentation with varying poetic structure to break away from the sonnet form. Keats's sense of humor may also have something to do with the lightheartedness of the poem, its form and the perceptible mention of bubbles and the presence of the letter O in the second stanza of the poem.

O, for a draught of ...

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