Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and Ode to Autumn

Nevertheless, in the poem ‘Nesting time’, Stewart interprets a personal experience in first person of the appearance of a bird that lands upon his daughter and forgets the thought of the harsh world. Stewart’s descriptive language repeatedly explains the poem as if seen in his viewpoint, beginning with an interjection, ‘oh’ communicating of his incredulity of an ‘absurd’ bird. Symbolizing the bird with strong coloured imagery its ‘mossy green, sunlit’, described to be bright and joyful, with sweetness shown with the type of bird, ‘honey-eater’, Douglas Stewart takes the time to describe its admiration juxtaposed to the dangerous world surrounding it. While visualizing the birds actions, ‘pick-pick-pick’ of alliteration and repetition of its

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.

The timeless essence and the ambivalence in Yeats’ poems urge the reader’s response to relevant themes in society today. This enduring power of Yeats’ poetry, influenced by the Mystic and pagan influences is embedded within the textual integrity drawn from poetic techniques and structure when discussing relevant contextual concerns.

Dunbar states in the first and last line of every stanza “I know what” or “I know why” to reassure the reader that he completely understands and may be feeling the same way in relation to his life. Due to Dunbar understanding how the bird feels, he may have once felt isolated, confined, or oppressed by society at some point in his life. However, he may even understand the hope the bird feels in regards to overcoming the struggle. At the end of the poem, Dunbar concludes with, “When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore--It is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core…” which could be insinuating the hope to be free and a plea to have his voice heard so that struggle was worth

In literature, it is generally agreed that 'The Nightingale invites the beholder to explore something beyond the merely human '. Both Keats and Finch imitate this concept in 'Ode to a Nightingale ' and 'To the Nightingale ' by using poetic form and language to show the qualities of a bird that inspires them to look beyond the physical and in Finch 's case, challenge the confines of human restriction whilst asserting poetry as a human necessity.

In the third stanza, the persona emphasizes the point that everything seems to be going wrong. He adds that the days are twice as long and the birds have forgotten their song. This only shows us that the persona probably experiences sleepless nights and awaits for morning with much eagerness - the birds seem to take longer to announce that morning has come by their singing (Johnson 1). To collaborate this with the idea that everything reminded the persona of the departed, it seems that the persona spends his days and nights thinking about the dear person or object.

Death is a heavy subject. When people talk about death the thought that comes to mind is fear and horror. Poe did a great job in describing these things in his poem. Also bringing a new look on death. After reading The Raven the inference that I got from Poe shows the sadness that death can bring to a person that could last a lifetime.

The loss of innocence is expressed through the eyes of a captive bird. Blake shows how the bird loses it's innocence through stanza's, getting darker with each one. The first stanza mentions the sunny fields the bird once flew over, which refers to how happy life was before. Line one “How sweet I roam'd from field to field” shows that the bird misses being out in the open, free to glide where they please. William Blake uses imagery throughout his poem to portray the loss slowly with each line.

For Edna in the novel, the bird with the broken wing helps her relate to the natural cycle of a bird. The broken wing for Edna symbolizes her strength failing, and her consequences coming back weighing her down. The conversation she has with Arobin about Madame Reisz also foreshadows Edna breaking her wings. The bird at the end of the novel when Edna takes her life in the sea, broken, crashing is a picture of exactly what the Madame tells her would happen if she overestimated her strength and was not careful. A bird with a broken wing is bound to succumb to the natural cycle of life and perish if it does not gain its proper strength back. Edna lost all her strength when she decided to give her life. The bird singing throughout Whitman’s poem symbolizes the sorrow and crying out of the narrator and the grief of the nation as a whole. The bird is heard above all else in the land which is in complete calmness. The narrator says the bird sang a song of death, but also a verse for the fallen. The bird is not just singing out because of grief, but also to rejoice and celebrate the life the fallen had, out of remembrance and respect. The calming of nature, with only the sound of the bird overall is important show the importance of either crying out or rejoicing in remembrance. A bird will always sing, but to be able to relate to the narrators ability to relate to the voice spiritually shows how emotional the loss has left him and his surroundings. Not only are people effected by the death and loss, he uses the bird as a way to show everyone and everything was effected and grieving. Chopin used birds to imply people (Edna) can fly and be free from a cage (trapped in her life), but also break their wings and succumb to the brokenness (taking her

John Keats’s poem begins with “when I have fears that I may cease to be”, bluntly asking what would happened if he died today. He asks himself

John Keats was a well established English poet in the early 19th century. His work is greatly influenced by his family, studies, political views, and life experiences. Keats was born October 31st, 1795 in a stable to his devoted parents, Thomas and Frances Keats (15). Before Keats’s twentieth birthday he would experience many hardships from the passing of both of his parents as well as his grandmother. Thomas Keats died in 1804 after an accident occurred while riding his horse, leaving John Keats as the ‘man’ of the house at the young age of nine. Less than five years passed before Frances Keats fell ill and passed after contracting tuberculosis. At a young age Keats experienced great loss and suffering that would linger with him for the entirety

Unlike the era before this, regionalism, this poem does not focus on a restricted area or culture. It is simply giving a description of a bird, which also could be looked at metaphorically, but nothing more. The modernism era did not particularly focus on a main subject. It mostly just focused on the interior dialogue and its unique characteristics.

The twenty-four old romantic poet John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written in the spring of 1819 was one of his last of six odes. That he ever wrote for he died of tuberculosis a year later. Although, his time as a poet was short he was an essential part of The Romantic period (1789-1832). His groundbreaking poetry created a paradigm shift in the way poetry was composed and comprehended. Indeed, the Romantic period provided a shift from reason to belief in the senses and intuition. “Keats’s poem is able to address some of the most common assumptions and valorizations in the study of Romantic poetry, such as the opposition between “organic culture” and the alienation of modernity”. (O’Rourke, 53) The irony of Keats’s Urn is he likens

In the context of John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” “The Wild Swans at Coole” by William Butler Yeats raises compelling dialogue with Keats’ piece, which suggests that Yeats, to some degree, draws inspiration from John Keats, in that his pose concerning the nightingale becomes a basis and “touchstone” for “The Wild Swans at Coole.” Aside from commonalities concerning avians, both poems share elements of Romanticism, melancholy, feelings of weariness, and other key ideas, images, and plots as “Ode to a Nightingale” and thus, “The Wild Swans at Coole” strengthens Keats’ initial ideas in a harmonic and resonant fashion using its own unique methods. As a response to Keatsian Romanticism, Yeats revises the ideas surrounding transcendence of

“Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret.” (Keats) In “Ode to A Nightingale,” John Keats is the narrator who is in a state of drowsiness and numbness when he sees a nightingale and then goes on to explain his encounter with the bird. Although the surface level meaning of the poem is a man expressing his thought to and about a bird, there is a deeper meaning that can be seen when you investigate the literary devices used. Keats uses imagery, tone, and symbolism to display the theme of pain and inner conflict between life and death.