There are movements in the poem from the temporal to the eternal, that is, from real and ordinary life to poetic imagination. However, escape is related to immortality because the poet tries to escape from the world of realities to the world of imagination embodied in the song of the nightingale. It is clear that the poet's ultimategoal is to achieve immortalityby joining the nightingale in the forest, and so he might obtain what he desires through creativity. Studying these overwhelming ideas can help readers to better understand and appreciate the depth of this Ode. This paper is an attempt to understand "Ode to a Nightingale"* in light of the ideas of immortality and escape,in addition to relations between the bird and the poet. Immortality, Escape and Relations between the Nightingale and the Poet in Keats's"Ode to a Nightingale"
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