This poem was composed at the house of Charles Brown in 1818, and reminisces about its author's brother, Tom, represented in the line "Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies.
This poem was composed at the house of Charles Brown in 1818, and reminisces about its author's brother, Tom, represented in the line "Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies." The speaker complains of how "a drowsy numbness pains / [His] sense, as though of hemlock [he] had drunk", and eventually asks if he should wake or sleep in the last line, soon after telling the title creature that it was not born for death. For ten points, name this Keats poem about a bird.
This poem was composed at the house of Charles Brown in 1818, and reminisces about its author's brother, Tom, represented in the line "Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies.
“{Ode to a Nightingale}”