" This poem begins, "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense," and it tells its subject that it "wast not born for death."
The narrator of this poem admits that many times he has "been half in love with easeful Death" and is jealous of a creature that has "never known the weariness, the fever, and the fret." He also connects himself to sailors listening through casements, Ruth, and emperors and clowns because they hear the same sound, and he later wonders whether "it was a vision or a waking dream." This poem begins, "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense," and it tells its subject that it "wast not born for death." Name this work by John Keats addressed to an "immortal bird."
The narrator of this poem admits that many times he has "been half in love with easeful Death" and is jealous of a creature that has "never known the weariness, the fever, and the fret."
“Ode to a {Nightingale}”