Read the first four lines and the final six lines of Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale."
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
. . .

Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill side; and now ’tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:−Do I wake or sleep?

Question:

Question 1

Read the passage from Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" to answer this question.
If the poem's last two lines were removed, readers would most likely:

think the speaker disliked the nightingale.

not understand the speaker's final frame of mind.

infer that the speaker was still contemplating death.

not know whether the nightingale would return.

believe the entire poem was a dream.

Read the passage from Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" to answer this question.
What's the best summary of how the poet's experience has shifted from the start to the end of the poem?

Question 2

From musing on death to experiencing utter joy

From thinking about ancient civilizations to contemplating modern ones

From gloom to despair

There's no shift

From musing on death to contemplating the nature of reality