Here are MCQs based on Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats: 1. What does the nightingale symbolize in the poem? a) Immortality and eternal beauty b) Melancholy and sadness c) Death and despair d) Chaos and disorder Answer: a) Immortality and eternal beauty 2. What kind of drink does Keats wish for in the opening stanzas of the poem? a) A cup of tea b) A draft of vintage wine c)...

 Analysis of Mortality in John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale and Jayanta Mahapatra’s Grass Both John Keats and Jayanta Mahapatra explore the theme of mortality in their poems, but their approaches differ significantly due to cultural, historical, and philosophical perspectives. While Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale reflects a Romantic fascination with beauty, transience, and escapism,...

John Keats in his famous Ode, "Ode to a Nightingale", addresses the nightingale as a ''light winged dryad".           Dryad is a wood-nymph in the Greek mythology which flies from one tree to another very swiftly. Here, the bird, Nightingale is also flying from one beech tree to another with a melodious song in its mouth. So, this bird is termed as 'dryad'. ...

At the beginning of the eighth stanza of 'Ode to a Nightingale' , the word 'forlorn' tolls like a bell to restore the speaker from his preoccupation with the nightingale and back into himself. It is only this that the nightingale flies away. The poet had, for a while, forgotten the real world which is full of "weariness fever and the fret." The Nightingale's song has inspired...

In Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingle' the word 'forlorn' is like a bell and draws the poet back into himself. As the nightingle flies further away from him, he laments that his imagination has failed him and says that he can no longer recall whether the nightingle's music was a vision or a waking dream. Now that the music is gone, the speaker cannot recall whether he himself is awake or...

Ruth is the name of the main character in the 'Book of Ruth' from the New Testament. She was a woman of Moab who was married to an Israelite.After her husband's death' she immigrated with her mother-in-law Naomi to Judah and used to glean in the barley fields of Boaz.The poet refers to her to stress on the immortality of the nightingle-even she'while working in the field,heard the...

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...