Ode to a Nightingale (Poem)
Who is the Speaker in the poem, Ode to a Nightingale?
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Though the first-person speaker of “Ode to a Nightingale” is never given a name, age, or gender, most critics understand the speaker to be Keats himself. Keats was said to have composed the “Ode” in a garden while a nightingale sang, just weeks after his brother’s death from tuberculosis.
Ode to a Nightingale