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Patel Bookmark and Share  With every passing minute, we continue
on the road of experience. Even though we know that the journey
of our path is more important than the destination of death, we
continually fear this inevitable. Building on this fear in 'Ode
to a Nightingale', John Keats illustrates the need to escape
from reality and understanding the sadness that comes from the
realization that there is no real escape. The poet uses the
immortality of a nightingale's song to contrast with the
speaker's life and show the reader that reality can be
distracted for short periods of time, but can never be
abandoned. In a series of situations and pos