Complete the following sentence. Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?
Correct answer: C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
- A. its focus on his lost love.
- B. its rejection of scientific progress.
- C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
- D. its development of elements from national folklore.
Explanation
The ode moves between the natural world of the nightingale and the speaker's imaginative response to it. This union of nature, emotion, and imagination is central to Romantic poetry.
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