...rather than forward, to a single implicated reader No hungry generations tread thee down; The vice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien com74 Marlon Ross, compating Keats with Wordsworth,...

...HUMAN The voice I hear this passing night was heard CONDITION In ancient days by emperor and clown: 3 " Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn! the...

...still incomplete. However, the famous description of Keats, who ruminates that the nightingales is "Perhaps the self-same song that found a path / Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick, for home, / She stood in tears amid the alien corn" (Ode to a Nightingale, w, 65-67) is purely...

...true or false, tell us of music, of inspiration, of human experience? Keats's words still remain true: The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements opening o'er the foam Of perilous seas, and faery lands forlorn. The nightingale...

...poem in which the poet addresses a person, animal, object, or thing. from Ode to a Nightingale Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry...tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. —John Keats...

...ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. VII Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. VIII Forlorn!...

...summing up the universal human experience of being "a stranger in a strange land," even at home. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, In Rembrandt's depiction of Esther's banquet, the queen's goodness is illuminated by...

...ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. VII Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. VIII Forlorn!...

...line. 86 casements . . . alien corn: see seventh stanza of 'Ode to a Nightingale' (1819) by Keats: Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn. For Ruth, driven...