In John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” the speaker longs for a way to escape the realities of human life and attempts to find one in the nightingale. ... ” He hears the nightingale speaking somewhere in the forest and begins to address him. He envies not the nightingale’s happiness but the fact that the nightingale shares it too completely. In the second stanza, the speaker longs to be with the nightingale, to be numb and free in the forest singing the music of summer from somewhere unseen. He wishes for alcohol (“for a draught of vintage”) that would help him escape to where the nightingale is. In the third stanza, deep in despair the speaker longs to fade away and forget troubles such that the nightingale has never known. ... In the fourth stanza the speaker decides that alcohol is not the way to reach the nightingale.
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