Finding a Writer's Song

Over the course of our recent classes, Mr. Schauble has had the themes of quality and 'finding a writer's song'. We read the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats. After we left class, I thought about how the metal/alternative group Evanescence would compare to this theme and how it could relate to John Keats' poem.
I thought that maybe Evanescence would be a group that sort of recreates the feeling of John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale". This would apply especially to their song called "Lithium".

(Here are the lyrics)

Lithium

Lithium, don't want to lock me up inside.
Lithium, don't want to forget how it feels without...
Lithium, I want to stay in love with my sorrow.
Oh, but God, I want to let it go.

Come to bed, don't make me sleep alone.
Couldn't hide the emptiness, you let it show.
Never wanted it to be so cold.
Just didn't drink enough to say you love me.

I can't hold on to me,
Wonder what's wrong with me.

Lithium, don't want to lock me up inside.
Lithium, don't want to forget how it feels without...
Lithium, I want to stay in love with my sorrow.

Don't want to let it lay me down this time.
Drown my will to fly.
Here in the darkness I know myself.
Can't break free until I let it go.
Let me go.

Darling, I forgive you after all.
Anything is better than to be alone.
And in the end I guess I had to fall.
Always find my place among the ashes.

I can't hold on to me,
Wonder what's wrong with me.

Lithium, don't want to lock me up inside.
Lithium, don't want to forget how it feels without...
Lithium, ...stay in love with my sorrow.
I'm gonna let it go.

In "Ode to a Nightingale", John Keats creates the feeling that the world has a gloomy look from the speaker's point of view. The chorus of "Lithium" may demonstrate this feeling. Also in both pieces, the writers demonstrate their attempt to 'fly away' and be free of their gloomy world. But in the end, they fail. Also, in their attempt to get free of their gloomy world, they create their "bird song" as Mr. Schauble would put it. Both writers make a good piece of work that expresses their thoughts about the world how they are living in it. The music background in Lithium reinforces this theme when compared to Ode to a Nightingale.