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 in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
—by John Keats
Answer the following Questions
1. On the basis of your reading of the poem, answer the following Questions briefly.
(i) What does the poet declare in the first four lines of the poem?
(ii) What reason does the poet give for feeling ‘a drowsy numbness’?
(iii) What longing is expressed by the poet in the second stanza?
(iv) What is the poet’s desire in the third stanza?
(v) How is this desire of the poet graphically illustrated by him?
(vi) What is the basic theme of this extract from the poem?
2. On the basis of your reading of the poem, answer the following Questions by choosing the most appropriate option
(i) What are the feelings expressed by the poet in lines 19-20?
(a) He wants to run away into the forest with the nightingale
(b) He wants to escape from reality by experiencing the nightingale’s feelings
(c) He wants to die after enjoying life like the nightingale
(d) None of the above
(ii) Identify the figure of speech used in the line, ‘With beaded bubbles winking at the brim’.
(a) Simile
(b) Transferred epithet
(c) Metaphor
(d) Personification
(iii) Which word used in the first stanza means ‘poison’?
(a) Hemlock
(b) Opiate
(c) Dryad
(d) Beechen
(iv) Which word used in the second stanza means ‘dug’?
(a) Draught
(b) Delved
(c) Blushful
(d) Beaded
(v) Which word used in the third stanza means ‘worry’?
(a) Pine
(b) Groan
(e) Forget
(d) Fret
(vi) Which word in the last stanza means ‘shining or radiant’?
(a) Palsy
(b) Pale
(c) Lustrous
(d) Leaden
answer the question correctly if you are a human
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