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Ode to a Nightingale

Ode to a Nightingale. Follow the trail of allusions!. Lethe. Lethe.

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Ode to a Nightingale

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  1. Ode to a Nightingale Follow the trail of allusions!

  2. Lethe

  3. Lethe • Lethe (LEE-thee). A river in Hades whose waters caused forgetfulness. It was on the banks of another Underworld river called the Styx that the shades, or ghostly remains, of the dead congregated to seek passage to the Afterlife. Unless they bribed Charon to ferry them across the stream, they wandered aimlessly on the near bank forever. But those who made it across the Styx did not have much more to anticipate. Once they had drunk from the waters of Lethe, they were left with nothing to reminisce about for eternity.

  4. Dryad • dryads (DRY-adz) Nymphs who lived in trees and died when the tree died.

  5. Flora Flora is the Roman Goddess of flowering plants, especially those that bear fruit. Spring, of course, is Her season, and She has elements of a Love-Goddess, with its attendant attributes of fertility, sex, and blossoming. She is quite ancient; the Sabines are said to have named a month for Her (which corresponds to our and the Roman April).

  6. Hippocrene • Fountain of Inspiration The Muses were entertaining themselves on the mountain with song and lyre, in so gay a manner that all could hear them. Poseidon sent up Pegasus, charging him to limit the mirth and noisy merriment. On arriving at the top of the mount, Pegasus had only to paw the ground to bring all quiet; and from beneath his foot arose that well-known fountain which, from its origin, is called Hippocrene.

  7. Definitions from Stanza 3 • Palsy-a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor of the body or a part • Specter-a visible disembodied spirit :ghost • Leaden-1 a: made of lead b: of the color of lead : dull gray2 a: oppressively heavy b:sluggish c: lacking spirit or animation • Lustrous-reflecting light evenly and efficiently without glitter or sparkle

  8. Tender is the Night • Youre gonna want me tonightWhen youre ready to surrenderForget about whos rightWhen youre ready to rememberIts another world at nightWhen youre ready to be tenderTender, tender tender...And in the hard light of an angry sunNo one remembers what was said or doneTender are the words they chooseYou win, I win, we loseTenderTender is the nightTenderThe benediction of the neon lightTenderTender are the huntersTender is the nightWhen they hold each other tightTenderTender are the undercoverTenderThe stranger and the secret loverTenderTender are the motionsTender is the nightWhen you hold your baby tightTender, tender tender... • Between the darkness on the streetAnd the houses filling up with lightBetween the stillness in my heartAnd the roar of the approaching nightSomebodys calling after somebodySomebody turns the corner out of sightLooking for somebodySomewhere in the nightTender is the nightWhen you hold your baby tightTender are the motions, tender is the nightBetween a life that we expectedAnd the way its always beenI cant walk back in againAfter the way we fightWhen just outside there are people laughingLiving lives we used to leadChasing down the love they needSomewhere in the nightTender is the nightAnd the benediction of the neon lightTender are the hunters, tender is the night

  9. Bacchus God of wine

  10. Tender is the Night • Rosemary Hoyt, a beautiful eighteen-year-old movie starlet, on vacation with her mother, arrives at a rather deserted portion of the French Riviera. There, Rosemary meets Dick Diver, a handsome American psychologist in his thirties with whom she instantly falls in love. Dick and his wife, Nicole, are exemplars of grace and sophistication, and move among a social set of similarly extraordinary people. Rosemary becomes part of this world, and in the gay times that follow, Dick begins to reciprocate Rosemary's feelings for him. Everything goes splendidly until, after an alcoholic friend of the Divers accidentally kills a man, Rosemary discovers Dick comforting Nicole, who has had a mental breakdown. • The story shifts back in time to relate the events that led up to the marriage of Dick and Nicole. Dick attended Yale, was a Rhodes scholar, and then moved to Vienna to study clinical psychology. Once, as Dick was leaving a clinic on the Zurichsee, he met the sixteen-year-old Nicole Warren, who was being checked in. The Chicago heiress had been sexually abused by her father and, as a result, had developed an acute fear of men. The two fall in love, and Dick becomes both her doctor and her husband. They travel extensively, are happy, and have two children together. • Partially on account of Nicole's relapse, the Divers decide to invest in a clinic in Switzerland. Things begin to unravel. Dick is accused of infidelity by a former patient, and Nicole, in anger, runs their car off the road. Dick learns his father has passed away and heads to America for the funeral. Upon his return, Dick meets Rosemary in a hotel, and the two consummate the aborted romance they had begun several years earlier. In the aftermath, Dick realizes his world is falling apart. He goes out carousing, gets beat up and imprisoned, and must be rescued by Nicole's sister, Baby Warren. As Dick continues to drink, he jeopardizes his position at the clinic and is asked to leave. • The Divers return to the Riviera, and Dick continues to drink and unravel, insulting old friends. Nicole has an affair with Tommy Barban and asks Dick for a divorce in order to marry Tommy. Dick readily agrees, realizing that Nicole's finally overcome her psychological condition. Dick then disappears to America, never settling down. The book ends, suggesting that he is still there. • By F.Scott Fitzgerald

  11. Musk-a substance with a penetrating persistent odor obtained from a sac beneath the abdominal skin of the male musk deer and used as a perfume fixative; also: a similar substance from another animal or a synthetic substitute b: the odor of musk; also: an odor resembling musk especially in heaviness or persistence

  12. Easeful-the state of being comfortable: as a: freedom from pain or discomfort b: freedom from care c: freedom from labor or difficulty d: freedom from embarrassment or constraint • In vain-marked by futility or ineffectualness • Sod-the grass-covered surface of the ground

  13. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! The nightingale was not “tread down” by hungry generations— But these birds were…

  14. Carolina Parakeet Once abundant, this extinct species nested in large colonies in the cypress swamps in the South Atlantic and Gulf States.  They migrated up the Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers to the Platte and regularly to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska, and in the east to Pennsylvania.   Hunted for their feathers and slaughtered as pests, the last reported sighting in the wild was a small flock in Florida in 1920.

  15. Bachman's Warbler Male: left,     Female: right A recently extinct species, Bachman's Warblers nested in the underbrush of forested swamps in the region bounded by Louisiana up to Kentucky and Maryland, and over to the Carolinas and Georgia, migrating to Cuba in winters. None have been seen since the early 1960s in North America and they were listed as endangered in 1967. 

  16. Dodo In 1505, Portuguese explorers discovered the island of Mauritius and the 50 lb flightless Dodos which supplemented their food stores.  Imported pigs, monkeys and rats fed on the Dodo Bird's eggs in their ground nests.  The last Dodo was killed in 1681.

  17. There are many other species our “hungry generation” is treading down as we speak.

  18. Ivory-billed Woodpecker The last confirmed sightings, until February of 2004, were in 1972 in East Texas and Lousiana and in Cuba in 1986.   Deforestation caused its decline as each pair required at least ten square miles of low-land hardwood forests.  The State of Louisiana ordered a halt to logging while it checked out a reported sighting in 2000.

  19. Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Congress prohibited killing the American Eagle in 1940.   In 1963, 417 nesting Bald Eagle pairs were counted in the lower 48 States.  They were listed as endangered south of the 40th parallel in 1967 and in 43 States in 1973.  In 1999, it was estimated almost 6,000 pairs were nesting in the lower 48 States and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to delist the Bald Eagle.

  20. Tread-to subdue or repress as if by trampling : crush • Casement-window sash • Forlorn-sad and lonely because of isolation or desertion

  21. Your turn! • Now you must pay tribute to your own “nightingale.” What creature do you envy/respect/stand in awe of? Create your own ode. • You may try to follow Keats’s form or try your own.

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