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¡§Ode to a Nightingale¡¨ vs. ¡§Manfred¡¨

In ¡§Ode to a Nightingale,¡¨ the world of human being is implicated as full of sufferings and hardships, in terms of ¡§weariness, fever, fret, groan.¡¨ The speaker sought ways, such as alcohol (vintage) and drug (opium), to get rid of these sufferings. But, the song of nightingale offered him another choice, which he devotedly embraced, to ¡§leave the world unseen¡¨ and join the bird to ¡§fade away into the forest dim.¡¨ Then, he fled to the state of the bird through ¡§the viewless wings of Poesy,¡¨ i.e. ¡§imagination,¡Â...

Posted by: Garrick Christian

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