Theme Of Ode To A Nightingale

INTRODUCTION – (1 paragraph) STRUCTURE 1. Opening sentences which introduce the poem, its author and its form.Explain why the poem is of a particular form (either a ballad or lyric poem). 2. Thesis statement: A general statement about what the poem communicates about life and life experience. 3. Signpost: briefly outline the more specific reasons for how/why the poem conveys this life experience and / or message. (Introduce the main features which will be explored in more detail in the body of your essay).

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 theme of Sympathy is the oppressive treatment of both the narrator and the bird, and the imprisonment of the bird and how the narrator sympathizes with it. This is shown through the diction choices which create dark images of mistreatment and sorrow, and imagery that is strengthened in repetition. An example of diction that supports the theme is “...its blood is red on the cruel bars;” this choice of words gives image of a dark, dirty cage with a wounded beaten bird and its cage that is blood red from his wounds; this image is very oppressive and gives characteristics of the prisonization of the bird. The next example of the poem’s theme is shown by imagery and repetition, which come together convey strong flashing images of the imprisonment of the bird and its oppressive feeling. “When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore, -- When he beats his bars and he would be free;”, this quote gives imagery to the reader to see a bruised, tired, and dirty bird beating against his cage for freedom. The repetition of the word “when” in the quote gives off the effect to the reader of flashing images one after the other. While the use of the words “bars”, “bruised”, “sore”, and “he beats”, give off the specific imagery characteristic of oppression to the reader’s developing images.

If a bird represents hope, a broken winged bird represents the losing of hope. The imagery suggests that life is hopeless if dreams are lost forever. Also, Hughes’s use of a metaphor suggests that life is painful and restricted without dreams like that of a broken winged bird who is defenseless and vulnerable. The broken winged bird is linked directly to when a dream is lost forever, which again suggests the melancholic mood. (2) Perhaps, the broken winged bird is the consequence of losing the dream (3). This idea is continued when the use of personification points out that by losing hope, a person will not be able to fly (line 4). In essence, Hughes points that the dream will never shape if a person does not continue to chase the dream. The continuation of the metaphor stresses the loss conveyed in line 2 and how personal will is taken away when one can’t “fly.” Hughes purposely uses end rhyme such as in “fly (4)” being rhymed with “die. (2)” This serves to emphasize the effect of the conditional and the

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.

Keats mentions the sky to create the allusion of the large and vast wonders compared to one small man. He is fearful that if life ended, opportunities of finding their beloved ones will also come to a stop. By personifying the night by turning its stars into a face, this allows the speaker to effectively interact with it as a human being. The two poems have contrasting rhyme schemes.

Poem Analysis: The Raven By Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe wrote hundreds of poems, but none is better known than the Raven. The poem is still relevant in pop culture today, for example it was featured on an episode of The Simpsons. The Raven is a highly effective poem, as it uses many literary devices. The devices play a huge role in the effectiveness of the poem.

Keats seems to find true beauty in everything; every view or perspective he has. In Ode to a Nightingale, the beauty is thinking that maybe death gives some one a chance not to have any worries, but knowing that there is always light at the end of a tunnel, and showing that there is always some one’s own Nightingale to put life into perspective when change is needed. Yes, the Nightingale in the poem might represent darkness in a way in which Keats thinks of death throughout many scenarios, but Keats still imagines this Nightingale as a beautiful creature in a beautiful world, “To cease upon the midnight with no pain, while thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad in such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain- to thy high requiem become a sod” (Lines 56-60). Keats is not envious of the Nightingale, but just wants to be like it and have a life of

The form or diction of Keats’ poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci, could be best described as a ballad, which is a poem that narrates a tale in short stanzas. An unidentified character that finds the ailing knight speaks the

Keats uses several different allusion is his piece. In the poem we see the use of allusions, personification, symbolism, and a simile. He commonly uses allusions, laying reference to several items without any explanation. Examples are the use of vague terms such as “charactry” which he uses to describe writing. He also uses the term, “garners” (Keats) which refers to farm storehouses.

Keats, like all the other poets of this time found inspiration in nature except he dug deepen and found not only nature’s beauty as inspiration but its sounds as well. While reading Keats poems, I found that a lot of the things he was describing symbolized music. For instance in “ode to a Nightingale” Keats states: “Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird” (61). The bird can be seen a representation of life. Birds create the music of nature when they chirp and fly around. Keats takes this and compares it to life and death. I kind of see this as an idea that when you find a passion and focus on it, it can take you away from your problems. I can relate to this because I am a musician. When I am sad or frustrated we turn to the things we love

Michael O’Neil claims that Keats greatest poetry thrives on its knowledge of contrast, its feeling for light and shade. The contrast that these two poems provide for each other allow the reader to appreciate their similarities, and likewise analyze their differences. The greatest contrast between the two is in the type of beauty they describe. In Ode to a Nightingale, the beauty is in the birds song, which lasts eternally beyond the lifetime of the bird. Thus depicting the eternal glory of nature, and the persistence of creation. The latter poem is displaying the beauty of the urn, a figure in a permanent reality–unchanging and existing beyond

Keats draws the reader into his fantasy settings and dreamlike state of desire. Keats was obsessed with blurring the boundaries of dreams versus reality and the consequences of those boundaries. This is seen more in this poem than any of his other works. It is not known why he had this obsession, but maybe the dream world allowed him to forget everyone he lost due to illness, or maybe prevented him from thinking about his own illness and future demise. While writing this poem, Keats knew he was ill, because of his previous medical experience, and because he lost his mother and brother to tuberculosis, so he knew the symptoms.

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

“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.