Summary Of KeatsOde To A Nightingale

The poem “Love Song” by Carol Muske-Dukes is about lost love. She uses a sparrow that lost its family. The life in this poem is being lived in a house in a village. The poem suggests this when it states, “He and I had a blue landscape, a village street, some poems, bread on a plate” (stanza 5). The poem doesn’t tell us when this poem takes place only where it happens. The tone of the poem is nostalgic. The bird misses its family. Two times the poem shows that the bird is nostalgic, “All day it pecks at the tin image of a faceless bird.” (stanza 3-4), “Love was faceless even when we’d memorized each other’s lines.” (stanza 6) The 1st quote shows that he wants his family back because all he does is stay with a tin bird which is the only resemblance

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 poet orders his listener to behold a “solitary Highland lass” reaping and singing by herself in a field. He says that anyone passing by should either stop here, or “gently pass” so as not to disturb her. As she “cuts and binds the grain” she “sings a melancholy strain,” and the valley overflows with the beautiful, sad sound. The speaker says that the sound is more welcome than any chant of the nightingale to weary travelers in the desert, and that the cuckoo-bird in spring never sang with a voice so thrilling. Impatient, the poet asks, “Will no one tell me what she sings?” He speculates that her song might be about “old, unhappy, far-off things, / And battles long ago,” or that it might be humbler, a simple song about “matter of today.” Whatever she sings about, he says, he listened “motionless and still,” and as he traveled up the

The title of the poem, “Sympathy”, represents the feeling that the speaker has toward a bird enclosed in a cage. The speaker relates to the bird by repeating the words “I know” and following them with an action of the bird, revealing that he has also

This chapter is about the young Emperor gets her sickness. Takiko plays on the Kyoto and its soothes the young Emperor which it helps her survive through it.

The first stanza of the poem sets the scene of the whole poem. The speaker sets a dark scene filled with “silence and tears” because of a breakup between the speaker and a past lover. He describes her kiss as “colder thy kiss” which shows the falling apart of their relationship. The second stanza describes how the cold morning air is like the sorrow he feels without his lover. He speaks of “thy vows are all broken” which suggests an infidelity. He ends it by describing how he feels shame when he hears the name of his the person he loved. The third stanza begins with the speaker questioning why it is so hard to move on. He ends the stanza by saying he might not even be able to get over this heartbreak. In the final stanza the author describes a secret meeting with his former lover; we are not sure if they really did meet, because the poem ends with the speaker questioning what he would do if they ever met again.

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

The bird has been though a lot. He has been restricted from all his freedom and beat itself all up. The caged bird doesn’t know anything but sadness, it is all it has experienced. In the poem the writer says, “When he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee,” making us think it is a sad song. It is in fact a prayer that it is sending to heaven.

Katherine Paterson did an excellent job in the novel Of Nightingales That Weep, to show what Takiko’s appearance, thoughts, speeches, and actions were, what other characters thought and said about her, and the narrator comments. One way she showed how Takiko looked like is by having another character explain both her excellence in the Japanese instrument ,the Koto, and her beauty. A direct quote from the story says, “They say,” Kira Continued, “that your music is as beautiful as your face.” (Katherine Paterson, pg.49) Katherine Paterson shows Takiko’s thoughts, speech, and actions by letting the reader understand what's happening in Takiko’s perspective. One example quote is, “The Emperor was wide awake now, his head forward, listening intently

Both Poems are faced with the problematic situation of inner hassle. Piano’s narrator struggles with his oppression of his emotions in sentimentality. When he is listening to the sounds of the chant from the women singing he says “In

The moments in our lives that we consider peaks of happiness can never be eternal. That is why our desires for permanence and change alternate dependent on our given state of mind. John Keats, a man who, upon experiencing a great deal in his short 25 years, realized through these painfully human experiences that beauty is an idea that exists in a state of infinity, however our enjoyment of this beauty is ever changing. Thus, we begin to contradict ourselves, and wish simultaneously for both the permanent beauty of an event or feeling–as well as the unreachable joy for more. Keats’ two poems, Ode to a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale discuss these opposing ideals, and build off of each other in a way that is comparable to a student educating

At the outset of the poem, the speaker is feeling a great deal of grief, sadness and loss at the passing of his beloved Lenore.Its late so is weak and tired.This sadness that he has tried to drown in books but he is still hoping for daybreak to relieve him at least of the oppresive darkness that mirrors his mood.“thy God hath lent thee y these angels he hath sent thee Respite respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore;Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!thats one example of the conversation going miserable.Here is the second example of th conversation going miserable.thy that Heaven that bends above us that God we both adore well this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenorel gasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.

The poem is about the vulnerability, innermost torment and the suppression of an emotional and fragile personality symbolized through the image of a Bluebird hidden inside the speakers mind.

John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is written through the power of eternity, beauty and truth regardless of existence, as Wordsworth showed likewise. Keats illustrated his poem through love in its sublime. For example, in the first stanza he says, “What wild ecstasy?” (Keats 930). If ecstasy is a huge feeling of

Keats, on the other hand, uses the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” to express his perspective on art by examining the characters on the urn from either an ideal or realistic perspective. In the beginning, Keats asks questions regarding the “mad pursuit” (9, p.1847) of the people on the Grecian urn. As the Grecian urn exists outside of time, Keats creates a paradox for the human figures on the urn because they do not confront aging but neither experience time; Keats then further discusses the paradox in the preceding stanzas of the poem. In the second and third stanza, Keats examines the picture of the piper playing to his lover “beneath the trees” (15, p.1847) and expresses that their love is “far above” (28, p.1848) all human passion. Even though