Question

Read the following passage and then answer the question. "Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy…" In this passage from Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale," the speaker says he will take comfort from A. poetry. B. wine. C. nature. D. the bird.

Answer 1

B. wine

Step-by-step explanation:

Romantics had a preoccupation with the escape from reality and find solace in nature. Keats too had an obsession with the theme of nature but in this excerpt "Ode to Nightingale", he generates a combination of cheerful and gruesome thoughts by listening to the singing of the nightingale. He discusses the conflicting nature of human life. Thus, he aspires to have a bottle of wine to get drunk and escape from the reality that exemplifies the fear of death. He wanted to move away from the sufferings of life like growing old and dying. However, he wishes to liberate from reality(through wine) yet he returns to the bird(nature) in the preceding lines to find solace in.