...nightingale's song has been a climax of experience, hence the claim in the sixth stanza that Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod. (11. 55-60) The word "ecstasy" in this context suggests the ecstasy of orgasm, la petite mort ("little...

...his pursuit of that song includes a willing submission to the deadly atra voluptas that attends it: [F]or many a time I have been half in love with easeful...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! (Ode to a Nightingale 51-58) Baudelaire said of Delacroix that he was the foremost "modern" painter...

...and happily the queen-moon is on her throne, clustered around with all her starry fays.... now more than ever seems it rich to die, to cease upon the...pouring forth thy soul abroad, in such an ecstasy."... (1819) je suis tout avec toi ! tendre est la nuit et la reine, la Iune, est sur son trdne, entouree...