Ode to a Nightingale John keats

  Ode to a Nightingale John keats



“Ode on a Grecian urn” is a poem written by the English romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously in January 1820, number 15 Issus of the magazine Annals of the fine arts. The poem is one of several “Great odes of 1819” which include “ode to a Indolence”, “ode to a Melancholy”,“ Ode to Psyche”, “Ode to a Nightingale” Keats found earlier forms of poetry unsatisfactory for his purpose, and the collection represented a new development of the ode form.

  

" Ode to a Nightingale " 

          Ode to a Nightingale is a poem by John Keats written in May 1819 in their the garden of the Spaniards Inn, hump stead, London, or according to kea’s friend Charles Arbitrage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of kea’s house, also in Hampstead. “Ode to a Nightingale” is a personal poem that describes kea’s journey in to the state of negative capability.

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              “Ode to a Nightingale” is the longest of the 1819 odes with 8 stanza containing 10 lines each. The poem begins by describing the state of the poet, using negative statements to intensify the description of the poet’s physical state such as “numb less pains” and not through envy of thy happy lot.

                    While the ode is written “to a Nightingale” the emphasis of the first line is placed upon the narrator rather than the bird, and Helen vender suggests that the negation of the reader as a party in the discourse happens just as the song of the nightingale becomes the “Voice of Pure self expression”.

 

 

 

Conclusion

                             In conclusion, John Keats, as a member of the Romantic Movement, viewed nature in a positive light. This is demonstrated throughout the poem by a number of positive metaphors and similes for nature. The most obvious metaphor being that of the goddess in stanza two who enjoys the changing season to such an extent it is compared to being under the influence of opium.