In one stanza, the speaker is "In Love with easeful death", declaring that it is best to die with the title figure "pouring out thy soul abroad."
An interpretation of this work discusses its use of Old Testament references in the mentioning of "the sad heart of Ruth". In one stanza, the speaker is "In Love with easeful death", declaring that it is best to die with the title figure "pouring out thy soul abroad." Before that he declares that he will "fly to thee" on "the wingless views of poesy." Opening with the lines "a drowsy numbness pains/my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk", it ends with the speaker listening to "thy plaintive emblem fade" and asking "Do I wake or sleep". Another stanza opens with the lines "Thou wast not born for death, Immortal bird/ Nor hungry generations tread thee down". FTP, name this Keats poem about a kind of bird.
An interpretation of this work discusses its use of Old Testament references in the mentioning of "the sad heart of Ruth".
{Ode} to a {Nightingale}