...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,...

...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...

...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,...But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light winged Dryad2 of the trees, ' Lethe-wards: towards Lethe, river in Hades whose water induces...

...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,...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...

...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 or end it....

...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,...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 the narrator:...

...sensibilities. Nor should we forget the sensibilities that may be reawakened. When John Keats wrote: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk he had open before him Horace's fourteenth Epode: Why a soft numbness drenches all my inmost senses...

...out of their bodies: drugs and alcohol. He feels strange right away as he listens to the bird: "as if of hemlock I had drunk, / or emptied some dull opiate to the drains." He considers the use of alcohol to lift him up and out of his body in ecstasy—wine might help him...