In The Indicator, Leigh Hunt praises the combination of "real melancholy" and "imaginative relief" in this poem, comparing its refreshment to the poet's imaginary wine. The speaker of this poem calls fancy a "deceiving elf," since she "cannot cheat so well / as she is famed to do." This poem praises the "dance, and Provenca
In The Indicator, Leigh Hunt praises the combination of "real melancholy" and "imaginative relief" in this poem, comparing its refreshment to the poet's imaginary wine. The speaker of this poem calls fancy a "deceiving elf," since she "cannot cheat so well / as she is famed to do." This poem praises the "dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth" found in a "beaker full of the warm south," though the speaker later decides to be "not charioted by (*) Bacchus and his pards." The speaker notes that he has "been half in love with easeful death," where he could escape "the weariness, the fever, and the fret." This poem describes a "drowsy numbnessas though from hemlock I had drunk," and it concludes by asking "Do I wake or sleep?" For 10 points, name this poem addressed to a "dryad of the trees," written by John Keats.
In The Indicator, Leigh Hunt praises the combination of "real melancholy" and "imaginative relief" in this poem, comparing its refreshment to the poet's imaginary wine.
"Ode to a Nightingale"