what is its theme?
It describes a series of conflicts between reality and the Romantic ideal of uniting with nature.
Ode to a Nightingale
"Ode to a Nightingale" describes a series of conflicts between reality and the Romantic ideal of uniting with nature.
ode to a nightingale by john keats poem It is written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn or at Wentworth Place.
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Ode to a Nightingale [SEP] Themes
"Ode to a Nightingale" describes a series of conflicts between reality and the Romantic ideal of uniting with nature. In the words of Richard Fogle, "The principal stress of the poem is a struggle between ideal and actual: inclusive terms which, however, contain more particular antitheses of pleasure and pain, of imagination and common sense reason, of fullness and privation, of permanence and change, of nature and the human, of art and life, freedom and bondage, waking and dream." Of course, the nightingale's song is the dominant image and dominant "voice" within the ode. The nightingale is also the object of empathy and praise within the poem.