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What is meant by 'blushful Hippocrene' in keats' Ode to a Nightingale?
The phrase "blushful Hippocrene" is taken from Keats' Ode To A Nightingle.
As the poetic persona in 'Ode to a Nightingle' wants to reach the world of the nightingle, he decides to recourse to wine. Hippocrene is the name of a fountain on Mount Helicon in Boetia which is scared to the Muses and whose waters were believed to bring about poetic inspiration.Comparing the red wine with the water of the fountain, Keats wants a drink so as to be divinely inspired.
It calls the 'blushful' because the beaker of the wine is top full by the wine and it looks like blushing like a girl. So, the poet here compares the full beaker of wine to blushful Hippocrene.
As the poetic persona in 'Ode to a Nightingle' wants to reach the world of the nightingle, he decides to recourse to wine. Hippocrene is the name of a fountain on Mount Helicon in Boetia which is scared to the Muses and whose waters were believed to bring about poetic inspiration.Comparing the red wine with the water of the fountain, Keats wants a drink so as to be divinely inspired.
It calls the 'blushful' because the beaker of the wine is top full by the wine and it looks like blushing like a girl. So, the poet here compares the full beaker of wine to blushful Hippocrene.
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