How does Keats illustrate the theme of immortality in the poem?

By contrasting the nightingale with humans

Through historical references

By focusing on nature only

Through direct comparisons with time

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A. By contrasting the nightingale with humans

Keats illustrates immortality by contrasting the eternal nightingale with the ephemeral nature of human life.

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