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A 3 page comparison and contrast of John Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale and Chinua Achebe’s Dead Man’s Path. No additional sources cited.
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The primary character or narrator of each piece is clearly of a different opinion than the other, yet they can also be seen as stories that speak of a before
and after, or speak of the two sides of an issue. With that in mind the following paper compares and contrasts the two works. Ode to a Nightingale
and Dead Mans Path In John Keats poem Ode to a Nightingale the narrator of the poem speaks with a sense of depression. While the poem is symbolically linked to
the nightingale, a bird, it is also a poem that speaks of the loss of beauty and of, perhaps, the passion for life. It may well be speaking of a
love lost, or youth gone. Whatever one reads into the poem it is clearly one that speaks of the past and of longing. This is evidenced, for example, towards the
end when the narrator states, "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!/ No hungry generations tread thee down;/ The voice I hear this passing night was heard/ In ancient
days by emperor and clown" (Keats 61-64). He speaks of a particular person, noting, "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" (Keats 65-67). In contrast Achebes story is about a man who has just obtained the headmaster position at a
school wherein he intends to banish old ways of thinking. This man has no respect for things in the past and is determined to be "modern," even pulling his wife
into his way of thinking: "In their two years of married life she had become completely infected by his passion for modern methods and his denigration of those old...people in
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