id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5662 Ode to a Nightingale - Wikipedia .html text/html 7119 608 79 In the words of Richard Fogle, "The principal stress of the poem is a struggle between ideal and actual: inclusive terms which, however, contain more particular antitheses of pleasure and pain, of imagination and common sense reason, of fullness and privation, of permanence and change, of nature and the human, of art and life, freedom and bondage, waking and dream."[16] Of course, the nightingale's song is the dominant image and dominant "voice" within the ode. John Scott, in an anonymous review for the September 1820 edition of The London Magazine, argued for the greatness of Keats's poetry as exemplified by poems including "Ode to a Nightingale": ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5662.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5662.txt