Ode to a Nightingale

current existence by experiencing death. Death, to Mae, was an experience that would enable her to free herself from the gloominess of her natural reality. Her willingness to not fear but accept death is reminiscent of John Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale. In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats’ speaker becomes infatuated with the idea of death and begins to ponder if death is better than his natural existence. Throughout the poem, the speaker, like Mae, is unhappy by his current reality, as he views his…

John Keats was an English poet during the Romantic Era. He has his own unique way of capturing life and nature. Keats believed that pain was necessary in creating a soul and that pleasure and pain are intricately linked. He illustrates that point multiple times through his poems and some of his greatest poetry, for example “To Autumn” is a perfect balance between light and shade. Keats writes his poetry based on his concept of light and shade and how both are needed in order to convey the true…

CONCLUSION As a result of this study we have come into the following conclusion: Prevailing over English literature for mainly 34 years (1798-1832), Romanticism proved itself as one of the most ingenious, extreme and instable of all ages, a time characterized by insurrection, conservatism and reformation in politics, and by the creation of imaginative literature in its characteristically contemporary structure. It came to be a period when principles and ideals were in union, when radicalism and…

Madeline and Porphyro exit the chamber as a ghost at the end of the poem, when the poet returns to the frame of the winter outside, the cold stone bodies and he reveals the uncertain life of Madeline and Porphyro. He confirms that both Madeline and Porhphyro have been gone for many years. In spite of that there is uncertainty about the fate of the lovers whether they find happiness or tragedy. Keats simply says that “They are gone: ay, ages long ago / These lovers fled away into the storm”…

In “Mourning and Melancholia,” Sigmund Freud suggests that when an object of love is lost, the ego recreates an image of the loved one inside the self. This image, or “shadow,” is not fully integrated into the personality, thereby enabling the ego to split off. In this “ego splitting,” a part of the ego sits in judgment on the rest of the ego, criticizing it, attacking it. Suicide is the ultimate expression of this dynamic; because one cannot kill this person, one “kills” them by destroying the…

literature. Cultures all around the world have used imagery in their folklores, poems and literatures for thousands of years. Renaissance poets enjoyed using visual imagery of birds especially in their love poetry and lovesick men were estimated to nightingales, singing endlessly of their desperate love. Rich visual imagery is utilized by WordsWorth in ‘DAFFODILS”. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd,…

the speaker watching love and fame leave him and become nothing. Part of this rejection in meaning stems from the way Keats presents death in this specific poem. How the speaker feels about death in “When I have Fears” differs greatly from, “Ode to a Nightingale.” Instead of the speaker being “half in love with easeful Death” the speaker resents death as it means the end of his sizable ambitions. However, while there is the sense of a great loss in the final lines, there is also acceptance. By…

Shelley’s Frankenstein attempts to classify itself as a romantic work. Often times critics and scholars point out the reasons on why it may and may not be piece of the Romantic movement. It is unparalleled to compare the classic novel to Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” as they are two very different reflections of the movement, though written within a short year of each other. In a detailed reflection thorough the works of two notable critics we will investigate the exact classification of Mary…

Keats “To Autumn” creates imagery through the use of sounds and alliteration in order to establish a soundscape that reflects and compliments the words fabricating the images. In this sense, the simultaneous and complementary use of a soundscape in conjunction with the imagined images produced by the literal meaning of the words utilizes sight and sound to create a more engaging experience; an example of this is the use of s sounds and m sounds that lead the reader to create the sounds of bees…

In the 1800’s, the word “romance” was not used as it is today. The American Scholar A.O. Lovejoy once observed that the word 'romantic ' has come to mean so many things that, by itself, it means nothing at all. Contradictory to the previous statement, F.L. Lucas counted 11,396 definitions of the word, and synonymous usage for ‘romantic’ show that it is perhaps the most remarkable example of a term that can mean many things in accordance to personal and individual needs (Introduction to…