Struck by the melancholic singing of a Nightingale, Keats is stunned by the happiness of the birds song and despairs at the difference in his own unhappy life. He also acknowledges the birds immortality in song and soul, seems envious that the bird will not know of human "weariness" and "fever", perhaps a reference to Tom's illness and death, and the bird was not "born for death, immortal Bird!"
Keats would rather forget his unhappiness, than die: the references to hemlock, and Lethe, solidify this argument, as both would blur the memory enough to allow Keats to forget.
Emphasises the feeling of melancholy, a tragic / Greek emotion that Keats would have found through his readings. Ref to Bible.
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