![]() ![]() In this ode, beautiful word pictures follow each other in succession. ![]() Keats’s poetry is known for being pictorial and poetical. The flowery grove comprises white hawthorn, fast fading violets, pastoral eglantine, musk- rose and other flowers flash before our mind’s eye just like the picture. Tender night with Queen Moon on her throne surrounded by her starry fays is well portrayed. The poem is significant for its excellent pictorial quality. Also Read, The Best of works of John Milton He will taste rich wine his mouth will be purple-stained and his sense will be regaled with the sweet smell of the flowers of the trees. The poem also portrays the rich sensuousness of Keats. In this poem, we can witness the lofty imagination of Keats, his fervent emotion, and sharpened sensibility which exquisitely appeals to romanticism in the poem. The song of Nightingale reminds the poet of “charmed magic casements”. The sweet and melodious song of Nightingale reminds Keats of Ruth standing with tears amid the alien corn. Keats thinks of ‘Flora’ and the ‘country dance’ and the ‘Provencal song’ as he thinks of the countries producing wine. The charm of this ode lies in the beautiful expression that it gives to the spirit of old romance. ImageCredit: theguardian Quality of Romanticism The song of the Nightingale fades away in the distance and the poet returns, half-dazed to real life. In the closing stanza, the word ‘forlorn’ calls up a train of other associations which wakes him from his dream, and realizes that he cannot escape as he has pretended. With his own mortality, Keats compares the immortality of the bird. He finds the power of beauty makes him long for death. Keats finds himself transported to the woodland world. ![]() He lings to escape far from the madding strife, the fever, and fret, the cares and sorrows of the daily life. He longs to escape to the world of the forest with the aid of a cup of wine. Keats, after listening to the song of Nightingale, is oppressed by its beauty and joy. In part, it is the voice of immorality that is sounding clearly amid the agony of immortality. In part of the Ode to a Nightingale is a very triumphant song to death, in part, it is a song of despair as the song of the bird is in part an invitation to the supreme ecstasy of death. Thus, this ode is a spontaneous expression of the poet’s joy in the nightingale’s song. And one morning Keats took his chair to the grass plot under the plum tree where he sat for two to three hours and returned with an ode ready in his hands. In her song, Keats found tranquillity and continual joy. Near the house, a sweet nightingale had built its nest. When he was staying with his friend, Charles Brown, at Wentworth Palace, Hempstead. The poem, Ode to a Nightingale by Keats, was written in April 1819. This ode is Keats’ largest poem and his transition or penetration into a melodious nightingale through the negative capability. This popular ode of Keats is an attempt to flee from the pain and pangs of life. It was written in the year 1819 and is a remarkable ode for many excellent poetic qualities. ![]() It is one of the most quoted poems in English Literature written by the renowned writer John Keats. Ode to a Nightingale is one masterpiece of poetic art of all ages available. ![]()
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