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In three pages this paper compares Keats’ nineteenth century poem with Dylan’s twentieth century song. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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rooted in a nature that is the timeless muse inspiring them. Dylan freely acknowledged his creative debt to Keats, advising, "To the aspiring songwriter... I say disregard all... current
stuff, forget it, youre better off, read John Keats" (Ricks 361). Keats and Dylan celebrated inspiration in the lyrical poem Ode to a Nightingale and the song Mr. Tambourine
Man, and in these works enlightenment is achieved in different ways but the objective is always the same - creating art that will transcend the barriers imposed by physical reality.
In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats narrator is suffering either from fatigue or perhaps too much to drink. He is seeking solace
from old age and impending death by indulging in a little fantasy. The speaker falls under the spell of the birds song that "singest of summer in full-throated ease"
(1791). This symbolizes "a mixture of joy in the bird singing and melancholy in the writer" (Menicacci). For Dylans narrator and seeker of artistic inspiration, it is the tambourine-playing
musician who liberates him from lifes dull routine and whom he seeks to "take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet
is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places in his mind, but there is never the sense that illusion is the goal. Each speaker is
always firmly embedded in natural reality. Keats sings, "Away!... for I will fly to thee, / Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, / But on the viewless wings
of Poesy" (1792). Art can take him places his aching feet cannot. In Mr. Tambourine Man, Dylan proclaims, "Its just escapin on the run / And but for
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