John Keate's "Ode to a Nightingale" is a well-known writing in which the speaker relates his emotions and his happiness to that of a Nightingale. This poem is one where the speaker is sharing his experience with the reader, rather than just recalling his experience, creating more of a personal feel. Through the author's constant use of diction, imagery, and tone, we get a clear representation of what the speaker is going through and how he feels.
In the first stanza, the speaker reveals his ambivalent emotions, the way he feels both joy and pain. The pain he feels is as if he has just drunken hemlock or taken a drug that makes him feels woozy and dreamlike. The speaker is comparing the way he feels to being high on drugs. As we continue, we …show more content…
He believes that to accomplish this feeling he desires, wine and alcohol is what he should resort to, as that will grant him the feelings of contentment that the nightingale possesses. We see the use of alliteration in the phrase, "With beaded bubbles winking at the brim". This alliteration creates a musical quality in the text, and assembles a more appealing work. Sooner rather than later, his realization of the real world is what brings him back to his senses and his thoughts about the human state intensifies the poem. The word "fade" is used in the last line of Stanza 1 and Stanza 2 and ties them together, creating thoughts that move swiftly. The use of the words "fade" and "dissolve" can be hinting towards the speaker's desire to escape from reality. The phrase, "But on the viewless wings of Poesy," brings us back to the speaker's yearn to be in the nightingale world. By using the poesy, the author uses both imagination and imagery to express the speaker's thoughts of wanting to fly away on his poetry's wings and join the nightingale in rejoicing. Throughout the next few stanzas, the speaker explores the nightingale's world, listening to it's music and enjoying the sense of happiness it brings. Yet with the end of the poem approaching, the nightingale flits away into it's own world, leaving the speaker is let alone. The word "forlorn" is used to remind us how
In the first stanza, the speaker reveals his ambivalent emotions, the way he feels both joy and pain. The pain he feels is as if he has just drunken hemlock or taken a drug that makes him feels woozy and dreamlike. The speaker is comparing the way he feels to being high on drugs. As we continue, we …show more content…
He believes that to accomplish this feeling he desires, wine and alcohol is what he should resort to, as that will grant him the feelings of contentment that the nightingale possesses. We see the use of alliteration in the phrase, "With beaded bubbles winking at the brim". This alliteration creates a musical quality in the text, and assembles a more appealing work. Sooner rather than later, his realization of the real world is what brings him back to his senses and his thoughts about the human state intensifies the poem. The word "fade" is used in the last line of Stanza 1 and Stanza 2 and ties them together, creating thoughts that move swiftly. The use of the words "fade" and "dissolve" can be hinting towards the speaker's desire to escape from reality. The phrase, "But on the viewless wings of Poesy," brings us back to the speaker's yearn to be in the nightingale world. By using the poesy, the author uses both imagination and imagery to express the speaker's thoughts of wanting to fly away on his poetry's wings and join the nightingale in rejoicing. Throughout the next few stanzas, the speaker explores the nightingale's world, listening to it's music and enjoying the sense of happiness it brings. Yet with the end of the poem approaching, the nightingale flits away into it's own world, leaving the speaker is let alone. The word "forlorn" is used to remind us how