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Ode to a Nightingale Ode to a Nightingale After losing his mother and brother to tuberculosis, and developing signs of the sickness himself, John Keats begins to analyze life and death in his personal poem “Ode to a Nightingale” (Stott, Jones, and Bowers 144). Keats’s symbolism of the Nightingale and the contrast between life and.