The most famous of Keats's poems, the Odes, can be seen to reflect the notion that he was a poet preoccupied by the nature of imagination and that these Odes are the "product of the reaction of his poetic faculties to the facts of his experience" (Finney 1936:3). ... The power of this poem lies in Keats's persuasive vigour in alternate states of being. ... What becomes obvious in reading these poems is Keats's exploration of creative expression and morality within human life. Life and tragedy are set against the Nightingale's music; and as a result is comparable to the in...

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