 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pagina’s
...the poet attain the "full-throated ease" of the bird? ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE (John Keats, 1795-1821) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light winged Dryad2 of the trees, ' Lethe-wards: towards Lethe, river... | |
 | Alan Richardson - 2001 - 270 pagina’s
...the great odes. The best known is the passage that sets the strangely pained yet detached tone of the "Ode to a Nightingale": My heart aches, and a drowsy...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. This passage has been related to an anecdote in one of Cooper's lectures, concerning an "extraordinary... | |
 | 2005 - 210 pagina’s
...five iambuses and thus of ten syllables. Poet John Keats's Ode to a Nightingale is an example: 'My heart/ aches and/ a drow/sy numb/ness pains My sense/ as though/ of hem/lock I/ had drunk' -ible For words ending in -ible (as distinct from those ending in -able) see -able. idiom Collectively,... | |
 | Susan J. Wolfson - 2001 - 324 pagina’s
..."drowsy numbness" that so hauntingly opens Ode to a Nightingale, making the poet feel as though he had "emptied some dull opiate to the drains / One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk" (1-4), captures the ambivalence of a pain-killer that could either suspend consciousness or end it.... | |
 | Lawrence Michael Zbikowski - 2002 - 386 pagina’s
..."Maxwell seems a bit down today." Others summon a rich imagistic world, such as that of John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale": My heart aches, and a drowsy...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. Here the descent to the mythical river gives a physical correlate to the narcotic state of the narrator:... | |
 | T. M. Robinson, Laura Westra - 2002 - 248 pagina’s
...sensibilities. Nor should we forget the sensibilities that may be reawakened. When John Keats wrote: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk he had open before him Horace's fourteenth Epode: Why a soft numbness drenches all my inmost senses... | |
 | Gregory Orr - 2002 - 250 pagina’s
...out of their bodies: drugs and alcohol. He feels strange right away as he listens to the bird: "as if of hemlock I had drunk, / or emptied some dull opiate to the drains." He considers the use of alcohol to lift him up and out of his body in ecstasy—wine might help him... | |
 | John R. Strachan - 2003 - 218 pagina’s
...Keats and the Mirror of Art,12 Jones's John Keats's Dream of Truth" and Barnard's John Keats.14 1 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock15 1 had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains16 One minute past,17 and Lethe-wards18... | |
 | J. S. Borthwick - 2004 - 392 pagina’s
...gown, pulled the pillow under her neck and fixed Clare Mitchner with a steely eye and intoned: "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. " "Aunt Julia," exclaimed Sarah admiringly, "why, that's Keats." "I am not," said Julia complacently,... | |
 | Deborah Forbes - 2004 - 260 pagina’s
...introduced to a speaker whose equivocal state of consciousness at first appears to have no cause: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk.18 Keats here depicts a characteristic mood, balanced precariously on the boundary between consciousness... | |
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Ode to a Nightingale MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy... 
