Summary of John Keats Poem "Ode to a Nightingale"

 "Ode to a Nightingale" Themes

In the early months of 1819, Keats was living with his friend Brown at Wentworth place Hampstead. In April a nightingale built her nest in the garden. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in its plum tree, he composed a poem containing his poetic feeling about the song of the nightingale. This ode was first published in July, 1819.

 

The main theme of the poem dismisses the optimistic quest for joy found inside Keats' prior verse and, all things being equal, investigates the subjects of nature, fleetingness and mortality, the last being especially applicable to Keats. The nightingale described experiences a sort of death however doesn't really die.  

 

Summary of the Poem ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’

  ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Summary:

To every romantic poet nature and the aspects of nature are a great source of inspiration. John Keats was not an exception. Once he visited the British museum and there he came across the Grecian Urn which had been preserved for a long period of time. The paintings depicted on the external surface of the Grecian Urn inflamed the poet's poetic spirit. His creative faculty became agitated and consequently he composed the poem 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'.

 

 

Discuss Keats as a Romantic Poet

Keats as a Romantic Poet:

 

John Keats is in many ways the most romantic of all romantic poets. Romantic poetry aims at the complete expression of the individual as compared to classical poetry, which aims at the expression of social experience. Other romantic poets have some political or social comment in their poetry. But the poetry of Keats is not a vehicle of any prophecy or any message. It is poetry for its own sake. It has no moral, no political or social significance. It is therefore the purest poetry.

 

 

Show how Keats Contrasts the World of the Nightingale with the World of Man in 'Ode to a Nightingale'

  Keats Contrasts the World of the Nightingale with the World of Man in 'Ode to a Nightingale':

 

Ode to a Nightingale is a great product of the fertile imagination of John Keats. It is mainly a poem of contrast, contrast between the world of man and that of the nightingale, between the world of reality and that of unreality, between impermanence and permanence. The poet represents the reality, impermanence and the nightingale represents the ideal, and impermanence.

 

Keats is a Poet of both Sensuousness and Thoughts. Discuss

Keats' as a Poet of Sensuousness and Thoughts in his Odes:

 

Sensuousness is that quality in poetry which is derived from and affects the sense of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Sensuous poetry would have an appeal to our eyes by presenting beautiful word- pictures, to our ear by its metrical music, to our nose by arousing our sense of smell, and so on.

How does the Theme of Ideal, Real and Transience, Permanence Reveal in Keats’s 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

Theme of Ideal and Real and Transience and Permanence Reveal in Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn:

 

The odes of Keats primarily deal with some of the conflicts that account for the complexity depth of meaning. The fundamental conflict was on the choice between the real world and the ideal world which he created by his imagination. The other points of conflicts are art and life, pleasure and pain, happiness and melancholy and the transient and the permanent.

 

Discuss John Keats as an Escapist with Illustrations from Ode to a Nightingale

 John Keats as an Escapist:

 

In most of John Keat's Odes there is a tension between the ideal world which is created by the poet's imagination and the world of reality in which the poet actually lives. The real world is full of sorrow, suffering, frustration and pain. Moreover it is a world of change where everything is transitory and short lived-beauty, love and youth everything suffers from destruction and decay. But the poet can create with the help of his imagination a new ideal world where everything is beautiful and permanent. Being torn up with sorrow and suffering, Keats wants to have rest in the world of imagination, beauty and perfection. (For this — he is often termed as an escapist. An escapist is that kind of person who tries to avoid the hard realities of life and wants to live in an imaginary world) but his realization of the fact that life is as it is helps him to come back to the reality.

 

Summary of John Keats Poem 'Ode to Autumn'

Summary of Ode to Autumn:

Ode to Autumn is one of the major Odes of Keats. It shows all the qualities of Keats as a poetic artist--- his pictorial power, his economy of expression, his classical restraint, his sense of proportion, and his grave and solemn music.

 

Write a Critical Appreciation of Ode to a Nightingale

 Critical Appreciation of Ode to a Nightingale:

Ode to a Nightingale is one of the greatest lyrics in English literature. It faithfully represents the entire poetic self of Keats. So it is called a representative poem of the poet.

 

Discuss Coleridge as a Poet of Nature

Coleridge as a Poet of Nature

Love for Nature is one of the most and conspicuous characteristics of the romantic poets. Like the other romantic poets, Coleridge is a keen lover of Nature and gives us many beautiful Nature pictures. When we go through his description of nature, we feel we are in the lap of nature. His The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Dejection an Ode' are packed with the apparent and colourful description of Nature.

 

Critical Appreciation of Poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Critical Appreciation of Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan has been described by the poet himself A vision in a Dream, a Fragment. The poet dreamt of Kubla Khan and his palace during his sleep. On awakening he appeared to have distinct recollection of the whole vision and taking his ink and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business and detained by him over an hour and on his return to his room, found to his great surprise and disappointment that though he still remembered some vague and dim recollection of the vision, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had dwindled into oblivion.

 

Discuss Kubla Khan as a Romantic Poem

Kubla Khan as a Romantic Poem

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greatest romantic poets and his Kubla Khan is one of those three poems which have kept his name in the front of the greatest English poets. The poem is the shortest but in some ways the most remarkable of the three. Kubla Khan is a romantic poem. It is a concentration of romantic features. The romantic qualities of the poem are as follow: