Keats' Ode to a Nightingale explores the changes that are only temporary in life, the transforming power of art, literature and the imagination and how they bring about change both positive and negative. It also explores beauty, truth and their ability to transform an individual. Keats also explores the contrasting concepts of immortality and death, beauty and truth, and imagination and reality. As you can see in my visual representation, I refer to these paradoxes.

There are two sides, one symbolizing life, beauty, truth and immortality and the other in complete contrast representing death, mortality, suicide, reality and growing old. These are the main concept in the ode that refers to change. The changes Keats comes to realize throughout the poem.

The idea of change is the primary focus of the poem...