...marvellous splendour, from which we are unable to resist the temptation of extracting a passage :— "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But heing too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged...

...Drang with comedy. Keats shaves his head; Shelley frizzes out his hair; Byron submits to a bowl-cut. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Keats sighs, his head stuck in a cannon. Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons,...

...referred to vaguely, as being 'in some melodious plot I Of beechen green, and shadows numberless': My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...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 thy happiness, — That thou,...

...the people. Keats was also aware of the effects of hemlock as shown in his 'Ode to a Nightingale': My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. Other means of altering the senses, through the use of stimulants, hallucinogens, and inebriants will...

...623ff. 6?] Keats: „Darkling I listen [...]" („Ode to the Nightingale" (Anm. 667) v. 5l). Ebd.. „Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, / But being too happy in thine happyness [...]" Ebd.: „The weariness, the fever and the fret / Here, where men sit and groan...

...known is the passage that sets the strangely pained yet detached tone of the "Ode to a Nightingale": My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. This passage has been related to an anecdote in one of Cooper's lectures, concerning an "extraordinary...

...the poet attain the "full-throated ease" of the bird? ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE (John Keats, 1795-1821) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...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 thy happiness, — That thou,...

...five iambuses and thus of ten syllables. Poet John Keats's Ode to a Nightingale is an example: 'My heart/ aches and/ a drow/sy numb/ness pains My sense/ as though/ of hem/lock I/ had drunk' -ible For words ending in -ible (as distinct from those ending in -able) see -able. idiom Collectively,...

..."drowsy numbness" that so hauntingly opens Ode to a Nightingale, making the poet feel as though he had "emptied some dull opiate to the drains / One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk" (1-4), captures the ambivalence of a pain-killer that could either suspend consciousness...

...today." Others summon a rich imagistic world, such as that of John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale": My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. Here the descent to the mythical river gives a physical correlate to the narcotic state of...