Ode to a Nightingale

Symbolic Use of Birds During the Romantic Period, the French Revolution began and lasted for years. Horrified by the cruelty of French society, poets during the Romantics period created beautiful poetry to bypass the worries and tragedy that brewed about in their hometowns. In order to see a different perspective of what was going on around them, poets turned to nature for inspiration and hope such as birds. Birds are vertebrates that are cute and interesting to the human eye. “Birds are…

blends the theme of food in, “Ode to Pork” by Kevin Young and “The Word Plum” by Helen Chasin, and are displayed through tone, assonance, and imagery. First on the menu, poet Young writes a love letter to all things pork, and takes us into his taste buds through assonance. Lastly on the menu, poet Chasin takes readers into her mind on binging plums, and tosses onomatopoeia and imagery to depict her sense of eating plums. In “Ode to Pork,” Kevin Young sings an ode that hands the reader a menu of…

Ode to a Nightingale conveys this in stanza 5 where the speaker describes different plants he can see and smell including “White hawthorn” and “Fast-Fading violets”. The lexis of these two plants that bloom in different seasons suggests he’s simultaneously experiencing both summer at spring and has therefore left the strict confines of reality. The speaker’s intense fixation on death and the nightingale causes him to have this vision which transports…

the past five years. He has deep memory of “beauteous forms” – not like a blind man who cannot imagine the view fully. It is important because it shows the connection between nature and man’s mind. E. This quotation is from John Keats’s “Ode of a Nightingale.” He desires for a drink of wine and that he can get thoroughly intoxicated. It is just like he is obsessed with Nightingale’s voice. He wants peaceful way that he can escape the…

John Keats has a standard of his poems: ”Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” This standard is something that he strived to accomplish throughout his life. He was born October 31, 1795 and was the oldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats four children. Keats passed away on February 23, 1821 at the age of 25, from tuberculosis. His father, who was a stable-keeper, died when Keats was 8. Soon thereafter, his mother…

She Walks In Beauty Laced with endless compliments and adoration, Lord Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty” tells the story of a man admiring a woman’s beauty. While the speaker does not claim that he is in love with the nameless woman, it is evident that he is attracted to her – based on the detail in which he describes her physical beauty. The “cloudless…starry skies” and “tender light” accompanied by the undulating iambic tetrameter sets the perfect, romantic mood for the speaker to…

Unlike the skylark who is a ‘scorner of the ground’ or the nightingale whose presence is only felt, the thrush is more mundane and close to the ground. The Victorian poets (writers) are more socially conscious and alive to the complexities of life, with an awareness of social responsibility, a feature distinctly absent…

that it was in 18th century One poet that was most famous during this era was John Keats. Keats expresses romanticism throughout all his works, due to life experiences. Keats was an artist of many forms of poetry, and in 1819 released a set of six odes in his attempt to create a new form of short lyrical poem that had a huge impact on literacy. The poetry of John Keats, which was influenced by personal background and by the romantic literacy period, has contributed to the American literacy…

John Keats: A Look into the Work of a Great English Poet John Keats has undeniably left a mark on literature. However, one of the most important things to know about this poet, is that he only lived until the age of twenty-five. Tuberculosis took his life away at a very young age. Probably the most ironic thing, as well as unfortunate, is the fact that when he died he truly believed that once his life was over, no one would remember him or his poetry. He even had the words, “Here lies one…

It has often observed of Baudelaire’s poem that it reveals an extraordinary fusion of classical permanence and an intimate, Romantic contingent--- believes that every nation and every age possesses and must possess, its own beauty. Baudelaire analyses these various and varying manifestation of Beauty into two separate elements—the eternal and the transitory. It may be argued, he showed no great originality( the idea implicates in Stendhal), but in going a step further and asserting that without…