Question

appreciate critically in your own word one of the following poems ode to a nightingale

Answer 1

John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" presents the general idea of the conflicted nature of life: pain/joy, pleasure/numbness, life/death, mortal/immortal, real/ideal.

Answer 2

John Keats, a poet of the romantic era, composed this poem in the spring of 1819. Being a poet of the Romantic era, he was a Nature lover, but instead of looking at Nature as a guide or teacher, he was in pursuit of beauty within Nature. The romantic poets emphasized on emotions, they believed in the power of imagination and experimented with new ideas and concepts. Keats is generally considered the most tragic of the Romantic poets as he was faced by a series of sad experiences in his life. The poem was written a few months after the death of the poet’s brother.