Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale"
from Talk Write Hosted by Brandon Cook
Today, I talk about one of John Keats’s most famous poems. In “Ode to a Nightingale,” the great poet creates not just an evocative description of a spellbinding song; he goes on a journey in which, bespelled by beauty, he falls into death and dissolution and is ultimately reborn. But how is this two-hundred-year-old poem still so powerful? Get full access to Talk Write at brandoncookwriter.substack.com/subscribe
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