Tag Archives: "Ode to a Nightingale"

A Friendship Stronger Than Fear

By Robin Bates | Published: October 23, 2021

As I spent a night in an emergency room, I thought of my wife, my mother, and this Piercy Ruth and Naomi poem.

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Stately Pines, Cathedral Towers

By Robin Bates | Published: September 14, 2019

Many American poets have found God in nature, including Longfellow. His “Cathedral Towers” compares pine trees to a church.

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She Stood in Tears amid the Alien Corn

By Robin Bates | Published: November 7, 2015

The figure of the Biblical Ruth takes on new resonance when she makes an appearance in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.”

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The Song of Night’s Sweet Bird

By Robin Bates | Published: October 6, 2013

Shelley’s elegy to Keats, “Adonais,” gives us a rich vision of our relationship with death.

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Half in Love with Easeful Death

By Robin Bates | Published: November 11, 2012

In his haunting “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats imagines himself as a homesick Ruth standing “amid the alien corn.”

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