Imaginative journeys (1 Viewer)

[abbey.123456789]

what are some techniques used in John Keat's "ode to a nightingale".

 

[Kabbasi]

what are some techniques used in John Keat's "ode to a nightingale".

Man I sold my notes on this a month ago so I forgot. The whole thing is an imaginative journey based on the protagonist's hallucination fuelled by his alcohol guiding him through an imaginative journey which leads him to self discovery and a reshaping of his previous ideas about the meaning of life and death and so on. Something about imagery with the "bubbling Hippocrane" or something like that gives a dreamlike sense to the poem. Then look at how the stanzas are divided into the stages of the imaginative journey and their effects on the protagonist, metaphor, etc. Colours, animals, symbolism. Just google it and there is this brilliant site that I remember that does a stanza by stanza analysis of the poem.