Question #6430556Single Choice

AP English Literatur

Question

Read the following lines from John Keats's poem "Ode to a Nightingale":

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:

What is the effect of the allusion to "Lethe" in these lines?

Options

It creates a sense of forgetfulness and oblivion.

It emphasizes the speaker's joy and exhilaration.

It introduces a sense of hope and renewal.

It disrupts the flow and creates tension within the poem.

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