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Ode to a Nightingale
Title: Ode to a Nightingale
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1020 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ode to a Nightingale
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE
As one reads this poem of John Keats, the overwhelming feeling is the envy the poet feels toward the nightingale and his song. He compared the carefree life of the bird to the pain, suffering and mortality of men. He continually referred to Greek gods and mythology when speaking of the nightingale as somehow the Bird possessed magical powers.
The speaker opened with the explanation "my heart aches, and a drowsy …showed first 75 words of 1020 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1020 total…adieu!" speaking of it as a "deceiving elf." Perhaps he feels he was deceived by the song into believing it was one of happiness yet now he realizes the truth, that it is really a "plaintive anthem." As the nightingale flies away "past the near meadows, over the still stream….[and becomes] buried deep in the next valley-glades," he wonders if this was just a "vision, or a waking dream….do I wake or sleep?"
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