CC - IX: John keats' "Ode to Nightingale" explanation( "Now more than ever seems it rich to die, /To cease upon the midnight with no pain, /While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad /In such an ecstasy")

"Now more than ever seems it rich to die,

To cease upon the midnight with no pain,

While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad

In such an ecstasy"

                These lines are extracted from the sixth stanza of John Keats' poem "Ode to nightingale". Here, the poet expresses his romantic romantic yearning for happiness while listening to the spontaneous and ecstatic song of the nightingale.

     The thought of ghastly Decay and motility(as expressed in the third stanza) has led the poet to an invocation of painless ('easeful')death. He feels the need for the dissolution of consciousness which at the same time makes him forget of the sorrows and sufferings, miseries and misfortunes, woes and distress of the world of reality. In other words, the knowledge of transience of all earthly happiness prompts him to leave the mortal world behind, thereby attaining a condition of bliss. And he regards that it is the calm and quiet atmosphere with spontaneous and ecstatic song. Sinking to unconsciousness forever the poet is happy to think that the last moment of his consciousness becomes gladdened by the sweet melodious song of the nightingale.

                   The lines clearly reveal that the thought of calm acceptance of cyclic changes inevitably merges with the thought of death. The poets feeling of revulsion and horror is here replaced by a luxurious death-wish, suggesting 'Escapism' which is a marked characteristic of Romanticism, particularly the poetry of keats. It is to be noted that the poets desire for death is not a longing for extinction (in the sense of physical extinction),  but to escape from the ineluctable destiny and to enjoy perpetually a state of sensuous-celestial rapture

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