Hello.

I'm here to talk about a fantastic poem or to a Nightingale by John Keats.

You can see the night again as Melissa wrote it

first about the publication of the pool ode to a Nightingale is one of the six great odds that John

Keats composed in the summer and autumn of eighteen nineteen eighteen nineteen was Keats a
Zionist metropolis

authors major poems came in eighteen nineteen and he composed the six great odes in this period
they

are old on a Grecian urn or on England's ode to melancholy or to a Nightingale ode to psyche
and to

autumn so these are the six great orders and ode to a Nightingale is one of the six great odes it
was

first published in July that year in summer.

It's a beautiful season and it was published in the journal I knows of the fine arts and
subsequently

it also came in Keats his third and final publication in his lifetime with the scarlet Lamia Isabella

and the eve of St. Agnes and other poems that came in 1820 the year before he died of Keats us
six major

odes of 1819 Otis psyche was probably written first or to psyche was probably written first.

We don't know for sure and to autumn was written last sometime between these two odes.

He must have written Ode to a Nightingale the order of composition of this odes is not very clear
order

integration is where Keats revisits the idea of the permanence of art versus human mortality and
it

is an ode that is often studied in comparison with ode to a Nightingale now in order integration
on.

He talks about the permanence of art versus human mortality here in order to a Nightingale he
talks
about human mortality versus the permanence of nature.

Now the composition of the Ode to a Nightingale Keats was living in a semi rural house called
Keats

house.

It is now called Keats house.

It isn't Hampstead.

It had a period of fruitful here at this time had a period of fruitful composition in the happy
summer.

Spring Spring Summer Days of 1819.

At this time he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and after.

After this he became an invalid.

He could.

He was too ill to write also in the next year.

He stopped writing at this time he was also in love with his Hampstead neighbour Fanny Braun
this houses

a museum now Keith's house houses a museum now.

Though his brother out to him had died of tuberculosis the previous year in December he had
also noticed

his brother at that time.

His own illness had not become full blown and life threatening.

Yet he was just slightly ill.

Eventually he would fall very seriously ill.

According to Keats his friend Charles armitage.

BROWN He was a friend who was there with kids looking after him also a Nightingale had built
a nest

near their house and the Nightingale was singing all the time.
One morning Keith delighted by the Nightingale's Song had sat under a Plumlee for several
hours composing.

That is a plum tree.

Even now in front of Keats house it is not the same plum tree.

Of course they keep replanting it I think and in various years it will have different sizes and ode

to a Nightingale was written under that bluntly vegetable.

Where that blunder is today there was another plum tree in 1819 and it was right down under that
plum

tree.

This is that plum tree.

I have also sat beneath it and did not compose poetry though I composed to some Facebook posts
I think

under this plum tree This is Keith's house.

Now the literary tradition to which it belongs.

The Nightingale has long been a symbol of points.

Poets have used the Nightingale as a sing symbol and the point Dick output.

It came to represent the joyous song of the nightingale came to represent a point output because
of

its spontaneous nature of singing.

It keeps the singing all the time as you heard at the beginning.

So because of this it became a symbol of poets sent pointing output boys have used the
Nightingale as

a symbol and it also became a symbol of poets the Nightingale has occupied a special place in
English

literature and tradition because of the mellifluous quality of its song because many boys have
sung

about the Nightingale and it's made up of music is very mellifluous as you heard just now.
And because it is one of the few British birds to sing at night in John Milton's sonnet to the
Nightingale

written in 16 32 or 33 the birds song is set to inspire hope in the heart of the lover.

It's a symbol of hope in Samuel Taylor.

Call it a dust bowl the Nightingale a conversation boom.

It is one of Coleridge just eight conversation poems.

It was written in 1798 the poet first perceives the Nightingale as the most melancholy bird and
then

says that in nature there is nothing melancholy.

He says that there is nothing melancholy in nature even though the Nightingale is first described
as

a melancholy but or to a Nightingale by Keats contrasts the painful mortality of human existence
and

the immortal beauty found in the nightingales carefree song.

However poetry can create a kind of rapt suspended state between the two that is described in the
poem

over three stanzas.

How the poet escapes into an imaginative state because of imagination he imagines that he is
flying

away with the Bard and he is in a suspended state between life and death between this reality and
heaven.

And this poem seems to prove it.

How poetry can creator wrapped suspended state this poetry seems to prove now the structure of
the ball

ode to a Nightingale is written in eight stanzas and in each stanza there are ten lines and the
rhyme

scheme is a BBC the easy the in every stanza in all the eight stanzas the rhyme scheme is a BBC
the
easy the E that means first line and third line right.

Second line and fourth line write to do Anderson

the fastest seven and last two lines of each stands are done in iambic pentameter.

The first is seven lines up to here and the last two lines the eight the line of each stanza is written

in tri meter with only three accented syllables instead of five the old is structured around the
contrast

between the boy to his up bound and the Bard if it is heaven bound up free.

The boy desert bound he has all the troubles of desert of life on desert but the bird is free a father

structural contrast is there between the mortal world marked by sorrow and truncheons.

This mortal world this world of human mortality is marked by sorrow and truncheons.

Nothing is permanent there and everything is tinged by sorrow tinged with sorrow and it is
contrasted

with the world of the nightingale where there are no chaos that world is set apart by its joy and
immortality

so the point represents mortality.

The bird represents immortality now what is the central idea of the poem in the ODE Keats
explores the

themes of creative expression and the tensions of human life.

Keats explores the themes of creative expression.

He is the very poem is an example of creative expression how imagination and creativity can
bring in

front of you.

There was and the tensions of human life in contrast to that as this human life which is very
transient.

The birds song lives forever but human beings grow old ill and die.

The human beings only grow old and die.

But while the birds song lives forever.

That means he seems to not distinguish between one bird and the other.

He seems to think that all Nightingale nightingales are the same bird.

Of course this Nightingale will die but there is something enduring in this nature something
permanent

in this nature that is lost in man's life because of modernity because of the chaos of human life.

The song of the nightingale affects the speaker like a drug as if he had drunk an entire bottle of
wine.

He is not drunk.

He is not drunk at all.

But his drunk on the happiness of the bud and he feels like he is drunk.

The exquisite song lulls him into a euphoric trance and for a moment he is transported into the
world

of the Nightingale.

He becomes a hallucinatory in the first stanza itself and he is transported into the world of the
nightingale

in five six seven.

No except in the last eight.

Yeah.

Five six seven stanzas that are only eight stanzas all.

Unfortunately for the speaker he does not manage to flee the world forever in the last stanza.

Eight the stanza he comes back to reality.

You can't just leave the world in your imagination.

You can only temporarily leave it and come.

You will have to come back.

So the point expresses his disappointment at his having to come back also ode to a Nightingale
ultimately

seems to acknowledge the hard truth that no matter what method of escape you use everyone has
to return

to real life.

Eventually that idea that you cannot really escape is also that which also actually shows in the
last

lords of Keats this inability to escape is that which also shows his inability to escape from the
traumas

of this life the inability to escape from his disease.

Whereas in the earlier roads he shows the desire to escape a willingness to escape.

But here in the later lords what he is actually showing is he cannot escape.

He has to come back and ban what life has in store for him.

Now we will go over the poem as well as the explanations in stanza 1.

The point is intoxicated with the song.

The boy is feeling intoxicated.

My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains he is feeling as if he is drunk a drowsy numbness
pains a

heart.

His heart is aching all because of what because of that song of the but my sense as though off
him like

I had drunk.

He is not talking about wine at first itself.

He is talking about Hamlet which is actually a poison which also reminds us that he is going to
die.

Every young man had this fear that he will get tuberculosis and die at that time.
Tuberculosis was a very rampant disease everybody was getting it and this is a very dark word
he is

using hemlock actually.

It also shows intoxication.

So my heart aches a drowsy numbness pains my sense as though off him like I had drunk or
emptied some

dull opiate to the drains.

Opiates some derivative of opium some drug I serve just one minute ago my body has been filled
with

opium.

I feel the light they were and let their words had sunk let there is that mythical Greek in Greek
mythology.

It does deliver.

Mythical river in which you will forget everything.

If you bathe and later you will forget everything.

So he is actually feeling like he has bathed in leather because he is forgetting everything he is

feeling

a forgetfulness come over him.

This is the desire to forget everything and escape also.

And he says it is not you what you're thinking his drunk but he is not drunk.

He is saying it is not true envy of day happy lot.

He is not drunk.

He is not jealous of the body that but by being too happy but being too happy and happiness.

He is too happy in the bird's happiness.

He is repeating the word happiness to show how deeply he is happy.

You know by being too happy in day happiness I feel drunk and thou light doing that to dry ed
off the

trees.

It is that wood nymph light doing it dry out of the trees diet is upward.

Spirit trees spirit lives in trees and woods.

So he is asked calling the Nightingale as that tree spirit because the Nightingale is always on the

trees lighting it dry it of the trees in some melodious plot of beech and green.

He is saying the Nightingale will be in some melodious plot of beech and green melodious plot
actually

the plot is not melodious.

The song is melodious but he is actually confusing the metaphor confusing that is all the epithet
the

adjective.

It is like a transferred epithet melodious plot.

It does not actually plot that is melodious but he's saying the plot as Melody as the plays as
melodious

some melodious plot of beech and green.

That is an example for synesthesia since state shares where the sentences are mixed up here
melodious

plot of beech and green is mixed up a beach and as you know please of the beach family beach is
a tree

and there are Blob bushes also in that family.

So wherever you see beach and green he is also hearing the song there so melodious plot of
beach and

green that is a mixing up of the senses that that is sinister shapes and shadows numberless
singers

of summer in full throated ease in the shadows in the trees the nightingale is singing sitting and
singing
in full throated ease in a very easy manner with all its might.

It is singing off summer remember this poem was written in summer.

This is summer now I have given an analysis also here.

The opening stands of the poem establishes an entrance to almost highly isolate hallucinatory
mood.

The point is drowsy and numb as if he has taken hemlock or opiates or had been imposed in the
latter.

The river of forgetfulness in Greek mythology he is feeling drowsy and numb his drowsy
numbness is not

from envy of the nightingales happiness but rather from sharing it too completely.

He is so intensely happy because of the Nightingale's Song.

That is why he is drowsy and numb.

It is only the first four lines that the poet dramatically tells us why he is feeling this way like

a dry out or a tree nymph.

He didn't amid some unseen plot of green trees and shadows the nightingale sings the music of
summer

in full throated ese it is this which has sent a point into the state of forgetful trance.

The boy has been sent in to a state of forgetful trance because of the happiness of the bird now in

stanza to the point desires to leave the world.

The poet desires to leave the world all for a draught of vintage that had been called a long age in

the deep delved earth.

He is longing for a drink of vintage all for a draught of vintage that had been called a long age in

the tree in the deep that lived out tasting of flora and the country green.

He is longing for vintage wine vintage wine his old wine.

It was but buried in the cool belly of the earth and it has been lying there for a long long time.
And when it is taken out it will be cool and like Earth.

So he is longing for such a wine tasting of Flora tasting of Flora.

How can wine days stuff Laura taste of flora and the country green.

Then also you can see synesthesia.

It also tastes of the country green of dance and province soul song province less territory in
France.

It is a village in France.

It is tasting of folk songs from that region it seems and it tastes of sunburned mirth.

So this wine vintage wine will taste of all these things that this synesthesia all for a beaker full

of the warm salt he wants too.

At first he longs for the cool wine and then he is saying warm salt this beaker when you drink the
wine

it will be cold but then it will heat up your veins.

It will heat up your blood so for a beaker full of the warm salt you know that England is far more
than

anything south as warm for them.

So he longs for the southern wine which will be warm like the South full of the true the blush
food.

He put cream full of the true the blush fool.

He put clean humor hypocrisy in his again.

What is it a mythological spring that grinds boy inspiration.

It is a mythological spring that grinds pointing inspiration for Love the true the blush food keep
it

clean with bead at Bubba's winking at the brim.

He wants to drink the wine and he is imagining the bee at Bubba's winking at the brim of the
beaker.
But when he brings from the beaker there will be bubbles winking at that bring such a beautiful
visual

description and purple stained mouth when he drinks that wine his mouth will become purple
stained no

other night it is again singing and he says that I might bring can leave the world unseen.

He wants to drink and leave the world because wine will intoxicate him.

He will feel like he is leaving the world so he wants to drink and leave the world unseen and with
ready

fade away into the forest.

Then he wants to just leave the world with the nightingale and fade away into the forest.

Then he wants to fade away into the forest.

Now that those two lines are a very famous example of negative capability negative capability is
the

capacity according to Keats himself.

He has ordered that he had written about it in one of his letters to his brother George.

He said that a boy should have negative capability what does negative capability the negative
capacity

of an order to be an uncertainty is mysteries and doubts without any literal reaching after fact and

reason.

The boy should be able to leave the scene.

He should not stay there and put his ego over it.

He should be able to leave the scene like this.

The point here in this form is imagining that he will be able to leave the world and fade away
with

that Nightingale.

That's an example for negative capability.

In that do.

You saw the point.

Deciding to leave the world now a summary and analysis of the stanza.

The speaker longs for a drink of wine and some other spirit that has been kept cool deep in the
earth

tasting of flowers song folk song dawns and sunburned mirth.

How can you taste of dance and folk song.

It is synesthesia he mentions from insula region in the south of France known for its wine sun
and troubadour

poetry troubadour without other wandering minstrels the people who sing about warriors though
he wants

to forget himself in the enchanting music he is still vicious to hold on to his poetry.

He wants to escape and forget but he also holds onto his poetry in the stands that you can see that

he longs for a beaker full of the blush flinty Brooklyn with beaded bubbles winking at the brim
that

he may drink it and fade into the forest dark forest with that Nightingale in the next stanza you
will

see him describing the dark forest he put green is the fountain of the muses.

That is where you get poetic inspiration bubbling up out of the earth.

But Parker says the famous Flying Horse is supposed to have dug his hoof into the ground.

That is a very famous story.

Keith imagines that when he and does the magical realm of creative expression with the boat.

Then he is imagining that is flying away with the boat.

He is imagining that he is flying away into the magical realm of creative expression.

He too will be inspired to write truly great poetry.

He is imagining now stanza 3 what the point would leave in this world as what he describes in
this stanza

what he will leave and go.

He says fade far away decisive and quite forget.

What does he want to forget.

What Dao among the leaves has never known.

You are a being that lives in that leaves among the leaves you live and.

Then you have never known our sorrows the sorrows of mankind.

The bird has never known what are the sorrows of mankind that Keats is describing the
weariness the

fever and the.

Here were men sitting here each other grown that we are in as the fever under the flat men are
sitting

and hearing each other growing because everybody has some suffering or the other.

Everybody has this disease.

Everybody is dying.

Nobody is happy and free.

So if they are all groaning about their worries and sorrows that we are in as the fever and the fact

is there is the troubles of that mankind that the bird has never known but policy shakes a few sad
lost

grey hairs palsy is like paralysis or disease.

All the people are suffering apart from policy.

That means metaphorically that troubles young people are also suffering that you grow as pale
and Specter

thin and dice youth because of tuberculosis that today grows pale Specter thin and dice used
youth.
Actually young people die.

Also youth dies into old age where.

But the thing is to be full of sorrow in this man's world in this human world.

To think means to be to have sorrow.

There is nothing positive to think about.

Nobody has any good reasons to be happy.

Everybody.

The moment they start thinking they become sort of fit and leaden an the deaths pass late that
night

because of crying because of sleeplessness.

The top heavy eyed despair.

That's bad.

Maybe I'd.

But beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes beauty does not remain beautiful it cannot keep her
lustrous

eyes because very soon because of sorrows or disease beauty will die out or new love pain at
them beyond

tomorrow.

Then you have new love pining at beauty and beautiful eyes.

It lasts only for one or two days beyond tomorrow it doesn't go.

Love also dies.

Love also doesn't last long in this world of human sufferings so this is what the poet would leave
behind

in this world somebody he wants to fade away with the Bard decided his existence and forget the
miseries
of the world which the Nightingale has never known the rest of the stands as a despairing picture
of

the sad realities of the world that he wants to leave behind.

He begins with an exaggerated image of people sitting around and listening to each other groan
and complain

even though as an image it is exaggerated.

That is no exaggeration in it.

Everybody has sufferings that destroy all the world is a place of weariness and fever.

In fact World Youth Day wasted from sickness but policies took an old age just waits for that
well just

to think is to be full of sorrow.

Even beauty or love cannot survive here for long.

Now the next stanza out of eight stanzas This is the fourth.

He says how he would fly away from this world.

That is the theme of the stanza away away for rival flight to the he is saying away let me fly
away.

I will come to you I will fly to the not chariot by Bacchus and his pods.

I will not be flying because of wine because of drinking not chariots by bark back as the wine a
god

of wine and his pods leopards.

But on the view less wings of Boise.

At first he talked about his leaving this world because of the birds song.

He is intoxicated.

Now he is saying he is not flying because of wine because of poetry and imagination.

But on the wing less view less wings of Boise view less means invisible invisible wings of
poetry though
the dull brain perplexes underdogs.

He wants to fly but the dull human brain is confusing him it is retarding him it is pulling him
back

but already that.

But he is already dead.

With the Nightingale even though the human brain is dull and it does not allowing him to fly
easily

he is already there with that bird.

Ten that is that night.

Oh that is a very famous phrase F. Scott Fitzgerald has written a novel called The Tender Is The
Night

ten.

That is the night.

Oh that is beautiful.

The night is very tender and happily the Queen Moon is on her throne.

The moon has risen.

That is the meaning.

Moon has risen and she is sitting on her throne clustered around by her starry face face means
fairies

as if she is surrounded by fairies.

The moon is surrounded by stars.

But here there is no light.

That is a very powerful statement.

But here there is no light when he says that it means there is darkness in his life.

It is a metaphoric light that he is talking about.

There is no hope.

There is no joy in his life.

He is thinking at the in the in stands for even though he is wishing to be with the Bard.

He is still a little bit in reality in five six seven next to three stanzas he is completely with that

but but now he is a little bit in reality and says here there is no light save what from heaven is
with

the breezes blown some light from the heaven is blown here by breezes a little bit of light is
there.

But apart from that it is darkness through valueless blooms and wine the winding mossy waves
through

green blooms.

He is again mixing up color and feeling vertebrate as blooms and winding mossy rays through all
these

ways.

Heaven has sent him some light.

Apart from that there is total darkness in his some just not joy but some light does that in life
always.

But apart from that he is easily darkness in his life the point decides that he will use the invisible

wings of poetry rather than wine to transport him into the world of the Nightingale.

And then suddenly he thinks he is with that bird in his imagination of course he is in the magical
kingdom

of the night leaned over by Queen Moon and her fairies that are the stars.

Tender is the night.

But it is dark.

There he is.

And the only light is what is blown in by the breeze through the green trees and the winding
mossy waists
now stands up fife.

He's imagining that he's with the boat.

Three stanzas are the same imagining he's with the boat.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet in the darkness.

He does not see the flowers.

That means again metaphorically.

He does not see any blessing in his life nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs even though
he

says he cannot see this entire stanza is intense with sensuous feelings fear smell and other senses

are awakened here in this stanza.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet nor watch soft incense hangs upon the boughs.

He does not know what soft incense hangs up on the bows.

He can feel some smell some soft incense how pretty it is how beautiful soft incense hangs upon
the

boat some Fain the fragrance is hanging up on the bows but in embalmed the darkness or thick
darkness

that does embalm the darkness.

Guess he is guessing each sweet instead of flower he saying sweet sweet smell sweet fragrance
sweet

colored sweet you know visceral delight everything is contained in that word sweet he is
guessing each

sweet where with the seasonable man and those this wonderful season summer this season about
a month

has endured with sweetness with sweet fragrant sweet sweet colors what has it done and where
has it

tender it has adored these flowers on the grass that they get the fruit tree wild everywhere there
are
flowers the grass the ticket the fruit tree wild what are the flowers.

He's not seeing anything but he is just feeling it but his being with his mother with his senses
with

his being why talk down he is describing the flowers the pastoral Glen tion fast fading violets
covered

up in leaves violets fade fast and they are very small flowers also they are covered up in leaves
and

amid May's eldest child the coming must cross he is describing that must cross full of Dewey
why in

the mosquitoes has doing it and or of Nextel in it it called dewy wine the dew or nectar is
considered

is like intoxicating like the wine full of dewy wine the mothers haunt of flies on summer eves he
is

also hearing the flies probably the mermaids haunt the flood flies on summer eve when he has
escaped

from this world he is experiencing nature he has escaped from the killers and bodies of this
human world

and is experiencing nature very intensely now the summary and analysis the speaker cannot see
the flowers

on the forest floor are the plants that produce that pleasant smell soft incense is hanging upon the

trees that he cannot see with the sense of sight suspended that is a heightened awareness of all his

other senses as he loses himself in the Nightingale's Song The Nightingale song seems to bring
to him

all the awareness of that forest in the fragrant darkness he can identify the White taught on
remember

UK as a place with lots of wild flowers he is describing all these wild flowers in the countryside
of

England you can see all these flowers in Hampstead so he is identifying white Hawthorn a Glen
Dane sweet
but I remember from Chaucer the violates the mask roses that bloom in me and the dew of the
mosque roses

intoxicating like the wine he spoke of earlier no stanza 6 here also his imagining that his with the

bird darkly night listen the time is dark there is darkness enveloping him but this dark cling also

refers to his dark mood because in the stanza he is describing death's dark mood he is getting
darkly

night listen so back up because the site the suspended he is now listening for many a time I have
been

half in love with these fools that suddenly he is talking about that he can't overcome his own
subjective

that this is why Shelly once admonished him when he read Endymion he had tickets for writing
in a very

confusing manner not very clear manner you know as soon as he talked about nature why should
he talk

about that suddenly it's like a jump but Gaetz said it is okay to be subjective it's thing like an
artist

we will come to that quotation at the end of the video so darkly night listen for many a time I
have

been in I have been half in love with peaceful that and he is like love in love with death calling
him

soft names in many amusing dream in many rhyme or forms he has called Death soft names
imagine a lover

speaking names and do your your like that he has spoken names into the year of death to take
into the

air my quiet breath he has asked death to take into the air his quiet breath no more than ever
seems

it reached today in this X Chris it feeling of being with the bird with the birds a song away from
the

cares of this world in that moment of extreme happiness it seems the appropriate moment today
now more
than ever seems it reached today and he is describing that to seize upon the midnight with no
pain he

is dreading pain because he has seen his mother his brother Tom everybody die in great pain
because

of tuberculosis coughing up blood and he has been diagnosed with tuberculosis but he is not that
ill

but he is afraid of the pain and he wants to see is upon the midnight in the midnight he wants to
just

seize just stop being there stop existing.

Seize upon the midnight with no pain while thou art boarding forth they soul abroad in such an
ecstasy

while you are singing and pouring forth your soul in such an ecstasy.

He just wants to seize upon the midnight he just wants to stop existing still with us to though
sing

even if I'm gone even if I'm dead there will be no end to the Nightingale song still with us to thou

sing and I have yours in Wayne today hi Requiem become a song and I have yours in vain after I
die I

even if there are years on my body it will be in vain because to your higher Requiem do your
high song

my years would become a side so is a piece of the turf grass and out together he would be under
the

soil his years would have become the tough soil by would he have years how could he hear the
Nightingale

song after that is listening in the darkness.

Being alone in the dark makes him think of death and he says many a time he has been in love
with these

four that there is no pain that is easy that I need his poetry he has called for that in this enchanted

world of the nightingales heavenly song it seems more than ever which today while the bird is
pouring
out its harmony

he wants to die at midnight while listening to the nightingale singing the bird is completely lost
in

the moment of pure joy and ecstasy the bird is there completely lost.

He imagines what would happen after the moment of his death the bird would keep singing as if
nothing

had happened it will become the funeral song for him but he will have no years to hear it having
become

a sword having become one with the art he will not be able to hear the 19 year song stanza 7 this
is

the penultimate stanza this is bad he will stop imagining that he is with that but thou was not
born

why would the Nightingale thing even after his death because thou was not born for death.

Immortal Bird he is telling the bird you were not born for that and he is saying that in an archaic

language though was not born why suddenly all the kind of language because the bird is
immortal it is

like the bird doesn't age it is reminding us of the birds immortality though was not born for that
immortal

bird no hungry generations tried to die down that is an ambivalent and sad lion actually hungry
generations

again I told you Keats writes in a rather confusing manner because they confuse us as adjectives
hungry

generation his generation Peter's generation had seen a lot of riots there was bread or blood that I

ate etc. There were lots of needs.

People were clamoring for you know better living conditions and these needs of the people in life
make

them also greedy make them forget the greater things of life they become very good these needs
and the
Nightingale is not trodden down by Hungry Generations the Nightingale also doesn't have to you
know

suffer from hunger or pain he is beyond all this the Nightingale is beyond all this the voice I hear

this passing night was heard this passing night this night is passing my life is also passing the
voice

that I hear in this passing night was hard in ancient days by him but I am alone he is imagining
that

and but and clone in ancient times have heard the same song perhaps the selfsame song that is
why immortal

but because it is immortal he is imagining that know centuries ago the same bird was singing
perhaps

the selfsame song that found a path through this hot sad heart of fruit Ruth in the Old Testament
is

a widow.

Her mother in law is also a widow.

But Ruth doesn't leave her mother in law.

She stays with her.

And through the South Side heart of Ruth when sick for home she stood in tears amid the alien
corn in

the alien land of her mother in law.

She stayed without going back to her own people crying that Ruth might also have heard the
same Nightingale

the same that oft times had to charm the magic Casement.

He is thinking of legends.

He's thinking of fantasy stories in some magic ship.

This Nightingale song would have charmed the ship often in stories you hear of how a song
charmed the

ship opening on the fall form of perilous seas in fairy lands for loan.
He is probably imagining something like a fairy queen or something because Keats was
influenced by Spencer

remember and he is talking about it in an archaic spend Serbian language.

And he is talking about the Nightingale in an archaic Spain Serbian language opening on the
form of

perilous seas in Ferry lines for long.

Suddenly that word for Lon is strategically placed there at the end of stanza seven bringing him
back

from the bird to himself because the bird is not for long.

He is for.

So when he says the word forlorn he comes back to himself.

He leaves that but so with stanza seven his imagination ends.

Now summary and analysis.

He thinks that the Nightingale must be immortal it can't die.

The Nightingale's voice is immortal because all nightingales produce the same beautiful haunting
sound

and generations have heard and enjoyed it.

Ambrose and clones in the olden days listened to the same voice of the nightingale that he hears
no

he is imagining that naturists immortal the speaker moves further back through history to the old
testament

of the Bible.

He is moving back through history to the old testament.

Keats imagines that Ruth heard the Nightingale song while she was working in the fields in the
foreign

or alien place and it cost her to start weeping in homesickness so from the old testament times
people
have been hearing this Nightingale and it meant a lot of things to everyone.

The Nightingale song was meaningful to everyone.

The speaker things that the Nightingale song has charmed the casement on a ship and the
casement opens.

Keats must be thinking of stories of knights fairies and monsters from Edmund Spencer's form
that fair

quit because Keats was profoundly influenced by Spencer.

Now the last stanza.

The point is coming back to reality for long he is repeating that word and saying the very word is
like

a bell to tell me back from the to my soul self.

That word for Lorne brings me back from you to my own self my own reality.

I do.

He is saying goodbye to the boat.

I do the fancy cannot cheat so well that she has failed to do deceiving elf fancy or imagination.

He is not distinguishing between the two.

Fancy or imagination can take you on some escapist trip but it cannot do so well that you will be
gone

forever.

You you have to come back.

Fancy cannot cheat so well as she is famed to do fancy our imagination is famous for cheating
people

and in the thing deceiving people.

But it cannot cheat so well how do you do his bidding goodbye.

They plaintive anthem fades.

Till now the song was sounding very joyful.

The song of the Nightingale was very joyful to the point.

Actually it does the point to us feeling now he is feeling it explained to our side the day plaintive

atom anthem fades past the near Meadows over the still stream up the hillside.

He is with feeling the Nightingale moving away from him.

And it is the going away of hope the going away of the desire to escape also.

And now this body the deep it is buried deep in the next valley Glades in the next valley Glades
in

the bushes in the next valley.

It is now hidden.

The song of that Nightingale and then he says in the last two lines was a division or a waking
dream.

Fled is that music Do I wake or sleep he's wondering whether it was imagination or reality.

Now this whole stanza is about the theme of imagination versus reality or reality was as fiction.

No summary and analysis.

The word for law is like a bell that brings the speaker back to painful reality and the realization

that the Nightingale's Song is fading away.

He is sad now because the song is fading away.

It reminds the speaker how imagination is a deceiving elf like Buck in a Midsummer Night's
Dream.

Transporting him.

He's also very expedient.

Keats hit it transports him to an ideal world of beauty and permanence but only for a short while
he

admits that as it tends to use his imagination to cheat his way into the nightingales would have
not

been as effective as he would have liked.

Now the birds song of ecstasy has turned the plaintive to the speaker side to the speaker as it
grows

harder to hear.

He can't hear it.

The bird flies away and the speaker imagines the land over which it flies.

The Meadows the stream the hill nearby and into the valley.

Then he can't hear it at all.

Finally the board has left and the speaker wonders if he ever enter the world of the bird.

He thinks that maybe the experience was just a waking dream and not really true.

But has the speaker returned to the real world.

Maybe the Nightingale's world was the reality and the real world is just a dream.

Who knows what this dream and what does reality.

Now some biographical connections in many respects.

Keats had been very unhappy for some time before he wrote this book because many traumas
were there

in his life.

His mother sorry Brother George had emigrated to America but before that his mother had died
and then

his other brother Tom had also succumbed to tuberculosis.

Keats was very close to these two brothers and one of them left.

He got married John.

That is why he emigrated to America and the other brother Tom succumbed to tuberculosis and
Keats had

nursed him for three months prior to his death.

Just a few months ago in December 1818 watching him grow pale and Specter thin and die his
second volume
of pointing had been harshly reviewed at the state.

He had no gainful occupation and no prospects.

He didn't know what is going to become of him as a boy because he was so much attacked since
he had

abandoned his medical studies also at the state.

He had quarreled with his sergeant with his boss had Dr. Hammond and he had abandoned his
medical studies

and he was showing symptoms of tuberculosis.

It was really a matter of time before before he also had to succumb to tuberculosis.

He had fallen in love with his neighbour Fanny Braun but it was not an easy love affair.

It was fraught with quarrels and troubles and also he had no money and because of tuberculosis
he could

not marry her because of all these reasons he could not marry her.

Thus when he says he wishes for that it may be a reaction to a multitude of troubles and
frustrations

all of which were still with him.

Now the themes of the poem The conflict between the ideal and the actual the ideal is what the
Nightingale

represents the actual reality is where the point is grounded.

It is also the contrast between imagination and reason he does not want to think.

He does not want a world of reason.

He wants a world of feelings and imagination.

It is also a poem that shows permanence versus change.

What is permanent.

This nature.

What is changing and dying and decaying is the man.

Human life.

Human life is one of change while nature and art are both of permanence art.

The relationship between both nature and human life as well as art and human life.

This should be understood in the context of other odes also such as a word on accretion on nature
human

life.

Art is a triad in the order and agreement.

Also he also talks about freedom and bondage.

That is another dichotomy in the poem waking and dream and the romantic escape versus reality.

These are all opposites are conflicting themes in that poem.

Lords of play sorry.

Loss of pleasure as well as acceptance of that that is also a pain pleasure is not there.

It is just a dream.

In reality you have to accept what is due for you in life.

You have to accept suffering in that now the pointing devices used in the poem simile for
example as

though of him I had drunk as though is that simile now metaphor.

So many examples of that view less wings of Boise.

Wings of Boise it is a metaphor where poetry is compared to a bird metaphorically starry phase
where

stars are compared to fairies alliteration is their fade far away far far fade far away dissolve and

quite forget the fever and the flat does sound far concerned consonant sound fur is repeated
consonants

sorry essences is also the singing est of summer in full throated ease pouring forth they sold and
bought

a broad singer stuff some are in full throated ease that is a very beautiful line singer stuff some
are in full throated ease pouring forth thy

soul about abroad pouring salt boarding forth thy soil means he is but the poor boy the
Nightingale

is pouring forth its soul itself this is essence what does it ascendance is there similarity of the

sounds of nearby woods the use of acid ends in the bone similar sounds in the bone creates a
very sad

despairing feeling summer in full throated ease pouring forth pour and forth thy soul abroad

so many similar sounds onomatopoeia is also that the murderous horn flies on summer eves

or no w is the marvelous horn that flies on somebody's hooves more mouths horned is as
ornamental pig

evocation of the sound of the Flies.

So so many ways in which he is playing with language.

He is repeating consonant words in alliteration.

He is repeating vowel sounds in essence and he is also creating that sound itself through
onomatopoeia.

This language in which he has written this form is so full of you know linguistic devices
linguistic

invocations of the more than theme of the full.

Apart from that he is also using classical illusions let a blush fool people clean back because in
his

body.

These are all references to mythology classical mythology personification is that B that bubbles
are

said to be winking at the brain.

Bubbles are said to be winking Paul C. shakes a few side last has policy is paralysis and it is
shaking

it is
personified as acting sense images are also the embalmed darkness.

You know multiple use of senses and synesthesia embody the darkness verb Duras blooms now.

Lastly let us take a look at what Keats had to say about key points and poetry.

This is negative capability.

What quality went to form a man of achievement especially in literature and which Shakespeare
possessed

so anonymously key to say Shakespeare possessed negative capability so enormously.

His describing it.

I mean negative capability that does when a man is capable of being in uncertainties mysteries
doubts

without any literal reaching after fact and reason the boy should not try to innovatively dating
my.

He should not try to solve everything.

He should not try to answer every question he should not put his leaves on every where the boy
should

have the capacity to be in uncertainty himself the boy himself should be uncertain.

The boy himself should be in mystery and doubt he should be himself at a loss for answers.

He himself should know what to do the opposite of negative capability is egotistical sublime but
like

Wordsworth he tries to answer everything his ego is ever about and that poem

that imagination said Keats again may be compared to Adam's dream.

He awoke and found it to imagination is sudden.

It comes upon you without the warning it does like items dream.

He awoke and there it is he found it too.

He he found everything that he did not have to wait.

It was already that it flashes like that imagination all for a life of sensations rather than thoughts
that also Keats said

he warns a life of feelings of sensations rather than thoughts rather than reason and this is what
he

replied to.

Shelley eventually said that Peter's writing is without a system or dramatized it is very confusing.

Keats replied Curb Your magnanimity and be more of an artist lower devotee lift off your subject
with

Lord sorry with all that means what he means is if you search for the word meaning it will be a
little

confusing what he means this.

You should put this subjectivity into the boom don't like to solve everything that the reason put
this

objectivity into the bull you need not a thing like a scientist did things like an artist.

Let there be confusion back your words with meaning bring more and more into one line that is
what he

means that is the advice he's getting giving Shelley.

And lastly with that great poet the sense of beauty overcomes every other consideration.

He thought beauty is everything sense of beauty is everything or rather sense of beauty

obliterates

all consideration.

The only thing you should have is beauty.

All other consideration should be destroyed by it.

Beauty is everything.

I hope you enjoyed this poem.

Thank you.