Question

short summary of the poem friends and flatters

Answer 1

The poem is a lament by the speaker about fickleness. The speaker, upon an occasion, hears a nightingale sing and takes pity on the poor bird for its beautiful song sounds like a wail. He then expresses the sentiment that the bird's complaint is all in vain, for no one will hear its cry. All of its kind are too occupied in singing their own songs and plants (symbolised by trees), in general, cannot hear...