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The Full Text of “Ode to a Nightingale”. 1 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains. 2 My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, 3 Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains. 4 One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 5 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 6 But being too happy in thine happiness,—.
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The speaker opens with a declaration of his own heartache. He feels numb, as though he had taken a drug only a moment ago. He is addressing a nightingale he hears singing somewhere in the forest and says that his “drowsy numbness” is not from envy of the nightingale’s happiness, but rather from sharing it too completely; he is “too happy” that the ...
Like most of the other odes, “Ode to a Nightingale” is written in ten-line stanzas. However, unlike most of the other poems, it is metrically variable—though not so much as “Ode to Psyche.” The first seven and last two lines of each stanza are written in iambic pentameter; the eighth line of each stanza is written in trimeter, with only three accen...
With “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats’s speaker begins his fullest and deepest exploration of the themes of creative expression and the mortality of human life. In this ode, the transience of life and the tragedy of old age (“where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, / Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies”) is set against the etern...
Five years later, with the first edition of his Collected Poetry, Auden removed the title and integrated the poem into a series of “Twelve Songs.” Far from its satirical first appearance, the poem in its final form is a powerful meditation on the ways grief leads to emotional instability and isolation.
Summary. ‘Sonnet 30’ by William Shakespeare describes the speaker’s most depressed state and what it is that finally lifts him out of it and relieves his sorrows. The poem is directed to the Fair Youth and chronicles the various things that bring the speaker to tears when he starts thinking about the past.
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Sonnet 18 Literary Analysis. The poem starts with a rhetorical question that emphasizes the worth of the beloved’s beauty. This question plays the role of informing the reader about the ensuing comparison in the rest of the poem. The speaker talks to his beloved as if his beloved is standing in front of him.
Accessed 5 November 2024. It was customary in Tudor and Stuart drama to include at least one song in every play. Only the most profound tragedies, in accordance with Senecan models, occasionally eschewed all music except for the sounds of trumpets and drums. In his later tragedies, William Shakespeare defied this orthodoxy.
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Summary. Of the 154 sonnets published in Shakespeare’s famous 1609 quarto, “Sonnet 18” is, by far, the most famous. The poem is one of the quarto’s first 126 sonnets, which address or ...
