ABOUT NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW WARM
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About The Nightingale and the Glow-worm:
“The Nightingale and the Glow-worm” by William Cowper is said to have been published on 31st March 1832 in the Penny Magazine.
The setting of The Nightingale and the Glow-worm:
The 1st and 2nd stanza of this poem is set in a village in the English countryside. That village is in the very lap of nature and many hawthorn trees go there. A Nightingale cheers the villagers with its song. A glow-worm is also to be found nearby. Although the Nightingale wants to eat the glow-worm at first, later it is convinced that creatures of the earth should not harm each other. The 3rd and 4th stanzas of this poem are set in the human world as a whole. In this world, there are warring factions. But the poet wants those factions to learn about mutual respect from the nightingale and the glow-worm.
In the poem the Nightingale is the symbol for a leader, so it displays the quality of a leader who doesn't have any mutual respect for the fellow-being. Thus the nightingale preys upon the glow-worm because it is his nature to do so.
As a result, it let the glow- worm go and had something else for supper. In 'The Nightingale and the Glow-worm' poem central idea revolves around the virtue of universal brotherhood. The nightingale first views the glow-worm as its prey, eager to eat the worm and satiate its hunger.