Keats 's Poem About A Nightingale

The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.

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Keats was a key figure in the Romantic era in the first part of the 17th century which, according to René Wellek 's classic definition, sought to substitute 'imagination for the view of poetry, nature for the view of the world, and symbol and myth for poetic style. ' Therefore, Keats ' 'Ode to a Nightingale ', written in 1819, has an affiliation with the natural world, through both the metaphors he uses and his meter and rhyme. The fact that the poem is an Ode to a nightingale shows that Keats is addressing the bird in particular and therefore it asserts the link that is found in Romanticism between humans and the natural world. M. H. Abrams states that Keats wrote this poem, whilst reminiscent of a Horation Ode, as what came to be known as a Romantic Meditative Ode which is 'the personal ode of description and passionate meditation '. It is clear here that what Keats is passionate about in this poem is 'the country-green '. Keats coined the term negative capability to describe 'passionate mediation ' in a letter to

Keats chose to use different tones in “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Keats used a melancholic, dreary tone in “Ode to a Nightingale.” The character in this poem longs to disappear from his life. He wishes more than anything that he could fly away with the Nightingales and be freed of the pain and suffering he faces in the real world. Keats uses phrases such as “my heart aches,” “drowsy numbness pains,” “fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget,” “last grey hairs,” “weariness…fever…fret,” and “leaden eye despairs” to illustrate the dismal feelings the man experiences

William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Clare were influential romantic poets who sought to learn about themselves and their art by immersing themselves as nature and utilizing different animals as their muses. These three poets each observed skylarks in their natural habitat and sought to decipher the meaning behind their songs. From these experiences, each wrote a poem which described their perspectives. Wordsworth, Shelly, and Clare’s Skylark poems are arguably written in dialogue with each other. While Wordsworth and Shelly look upon the bird and its song with adoration, both seeking to learn from the animal, Clare possesses a much darker conception of the skylark’s song, and instead attempts to reprimand and teach the bird. Their observations and the opinions of the lark are dictated by the season in which they find themselves listening to the bird’s song.

Keats's contrast of permanence and change becomes especially evident in the last stanza. The urn is a "cold pastoral," callous to the intense longing that it draws forth from its beholder, who is painfully mortal and insignificant in its presence and, furthermore, bewildered, for the urn "dost tease us out of thought" as we attempt to grasp its eternality. The notorious closing lines express the wisdom that the urn imparts to its beholder, and they tell us exactly what we can take for granted: ""Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."" Hence, everything else in the world is shifting, inconsistent; but the urn, an ideal specimen of beauty, is immutable and immortal.

In “ Ode to a Nightingale” Keats writes, “ My heart aches,and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,” comparing his heart ache to the drowsy numbness pains because his pain makes him lack physical sensation. By drinking the hemlock it is known he wants to escape and forget the heartache that does not make him feel by drinking the poison. The poets urge to forget is shown he drinks the poison “One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk”, which refers to the river of forgetfulness. By drinking the poison and drowning in Lethe-wards it symbolizes his urge to drown in urge to feel by feeling numb to the pain. It shows how to does not seek to face reality with his sorrow.

These poems are included because they had a strong feeling of mortality in them and summarize the concept of what Keats believed it to be. They were not the only two other topic that dealt with mortality but seemed to have a strong presence of it in them.

Hi my name is Dheer Bhatia, today I will talk to you about how Keats explores both imagination and reality in the poem Ode to a Nightingale. This poem is about how Keats escapes reality and goes to an imaginative world with a nightingale where he hears her songs and lullabies before inevitably returning to the real world. It’s an expression of love, hence the word ode, to the nightingale and her songs. The creative piece I have chosen is an illusion painting that is painted by Robert Gonsalves, and it illustrates the separation between imagination and reality, and its difficulty in its distinction. Keats uses juxta positioning, imagery, structure and rhetorical questions to explore the two concepts of imagination and reality.

"Ode to a Nightingale" is a regular ode written by John Keats in 1819. The ode is the longest one with eight stanzas with ten lines each. The poem was composed at Charles Brown's house after John Keats heard a nightingale bird outside his window singing. This poem expresses different themes such as the theme of mortality of human life, the theme of unhappiness and happiness, and various figures of speech like symbolism, to support the themes.

Keats was very aware of his own mortality and his poetry reflected the intensity and the passion of a man who didn't have very long to live. His poetry remains some of the densest prose ever penned because, like his brief existence, he had to condense so much life into so little space. The thought of impending death would be enough to make anyone fall into hopeless despair but Keats's incredible talents and commitment to live in the moment perhaps allowed him to three lifetimes.

Of all the great poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats (1795-1821) was the last to be born and first to die. Born in London, England, on October 31, 1795, to a poor stable keeper, John Keats devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by intense imagery, great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. Although he was brought up amid surroundings and influences by no means calculated to awaken poetic genius. Rendered an orphan at the tender age of eight, his father’s death had a deep rooted effect on the young boy’s life. In a more metaphysical sense, it shaped his understanding of the human condition, both its suffering and its loss. This tragedy and others helped Keats’ later

Keats use the symbol of a nightingale, an old symbol that comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses3. He thinks about his own life in comparison to the nightingale's life. He tries to express the immortality he feels when he is thinking about the long-lasting nightingale's song. He uses examples from the Old Testament and the fairytales. When the bird flies away at the end of the poem and the melody can no longer be heard, Keats again „becomes aware of the landscape around him...leaving him wondering whether his experience was a vision or a waking dream.“ (Commentary on Ode to the

Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” can be classified as one of those most well-known Odes to ever be written. Although the poem is a tough lyrical poem to understand, it is as if the poet feels the pain and bleakness from the day to day repetitiveness of life; therefore, seeks to disappear into the make-believe world of the Nightingale to find relief which eventually leads him to acknowledgment. While listening to the Nightingale sing, the poet describes Greek and Roman figures to enhance the feelings he is portraying. The poet described an inconsistent life of contradictory using the concept of life and death. As well as, representing the struggle of reality and fantasy achieved through a transformed state of mind. One can see the poet’s feelings are described by words that show the mood of the situation while his thoughts change throughout the poem.

Here he accepts life with Joy and Sorrow. Before Ode to Auttumn, Keats is a poet with an insatiable desire for the joy of life but in the ode Keats reaches a stage of impersonality where the process of death and decay are acceptable to him. It is the most perfect of the odes of Keats. Keats with all his poetic qualities is here in the poem which has a unique and perfect expression even the severest critic finds no fault. In it there is no looking before and after, no pining for what is not, but a complete negation of his own self. It is an objective presentation of the truth of life. The poem was written at a time when Keats had a lot of pain and adversity around him. Tom was already dead, Goerge wanted to go to America and Keats being the eldest had to arrange for money. His own love for Fanny Brawne was a cause of much agony for him. There is much pain at the back but the delights of literature are also with him. The Sunday walk by the River Itchen proved soothing and he drank deep the screne beauty of nature which resulted in his Ode to Autumn. Keats narrates a beautiful season to us and he does it in an objective way, “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness/ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;/ Conspiring with him how to load and bless/ With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run.” (Garrod,