The poem ends with an illustration of the author's concept of "negative capability," with the speaker wondering about the title figure's song, "Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
The speaker cries out that he will "fly to" the title figure in this poem, "Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,/But on the viewless wings of Poesy." Later he addresses the title figure as "Darkling," and admits that he has "been half in love with easeful Death." The poem ends with an illustration of the author's concept of "negative capability," with the speaker wondering about the title figure's song, "Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music—do I wake or sleep?" FTP what is this 1819 poem which begins, "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/My sense," a work addressed to an avian creature by John Keats?
The speaker cries out that he will "fly to" the title figure in this poem, "Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,/But on the viewless wings of Poesy."
“{Ode to a Nightingale}”