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English Literature Romantic Poetry Selected Poems of John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

English Literature Romantic Poetry Selected Poems of John Keats Ode to a Nightingale. Brief Questions with Answers B.Q: 1-81 Q.1. When was Ode to a Nightingale written and published? Ans. The Ode was written in April of 1819 and was published in the month of July of the same year. Q.2. What inspired Keats to write Ode to a Nightingale? Ans. Keats was inspired to write this Ode by the song of a nightingale that had built its nest close to the house of his friend, Charles Brown, in Hampstead. Q. 3. What is the central idea of the poem Ode to a Q Nightingale? Ans. The central idea of the poem is an inspiration towards a life of beauty away from the oppressive world. Q. 4. what is the subject matter of Ode to a Nightingale? Ans. The subject-matter of the poem is not the particular nightingale Keats had heard singing in the Hampstead garden, but a type of the race imagined as singing in some far-off scene of woodland mystery and beauty. Q.5. What is the theme of the poem Ode to a Nightingale? Ans. The poem is in part a very triumphant song to Death and in part the voice of immortality. Q.6. What is the legend of the nightingale? Ans. Philomel or Philomela, daughter of Pandion, King of Athens, was raped by her brother-in-law, Tereus. Tereus had cut her tongue and imprisoned her so that she not could tell the story of his misdeed to her sister. When the two sisters killed his son, he tried to kill them both, but the gods turned her into a nightingale. Q.7. Why does Keats’ heart Ache? Ans. Keats’ heart aches because of the very excess of his joy which he felt hearing the song of the nightingale. Q.8. What benumbs Keats’ sense? Ans, The song of the nightingale creates in Keats a sleepy feeling of dullness which benumbs his senses. Q.9. Why does Keats compare the song of the nightingale to hemlock or opium? Ans. Keats compares the song of the nightingale to hemlock or opium because of its power of creating a sleepy feeling of dullness in him. Q.10. What is hemlock? Ans. Hemlock is a plant used in the ancient world to produce a Poisonous juice. (Socrates was compelled to drink hemlock by the Athenians and died.)