The Nightingale: A Wood-Nymph for the Poets

Nightingale: Ecology and history In order to truly understand the important role of Nightingale in romantic poetry, it is necessary to look not only from British history but also from the modern world of the 18th century and its ecological interpretation. Why was this special, but very common bird chosen as a poetic symbol of a romantic era? In the 18th century, there was not much understanding about migratory birds of this world's common bird, but in fact, nobody knew that this 6-inch bird is crossing in winter. Always go back to England (McKusick 37).

In a romantic era, the symbolic meaning of birds changed again: the poet saw the nightingale as an independent poet, not a mere "high art expert who can inspire a human poet", but an independent poet. For some romantic poets, the nightingale came to accept the quality of the museum. Nightingale has a long history and symbolic relationship, including "creativity, muse, cleanliness of nature, Western spiritual tradition, virtue, kindness" and so on. Coleridge and Wordsworth regard the nightingale as an example of natural poetry creation. Nightingale is a voice of nature. John Keats's "Nightingale" depicts the nightingale as an ideal poet who won the poem that Keats wants to write. Shelly cites a similar concept of nightingale written in his "poetry defense":

For romantic poet John Keats, normal nightingale is not common. As Leonard Lutwack points out in the study of "Birds in Literature", praise for Nightingale songs can be traced back to ancient Greece. The wonderful music of this bird - and its classical association - surprised Kate. His 1820 "Nightingale" depicts the enviable joy of this bird, the symbols of the golden age of Western civilization are lost to the modern people. Nightingale's music is in sharp contrast to the melancholy modern poet's singing, when the night falls and the poet's vision fails, sing a "quiet listener" of "relaxing in the summer" and "singing ancient days" I meditate. A magnificent and meditative for the Mediterranean "warm south" pine

Vivid and imaginative. Poetry makes it possible to imagine that the reader explains inviting the poet to depict life in the eyes of the poet through a perceptual explanation and other literary devices. In poetry by John Keats' s "Night" and "Melancholy", both poems stimulate emotional reactions through their meanings. They say that they most often experience happiness by feeling pain and satisfy the satisfaction from life and thinking. In order

In Keat's "The Nightingale" and Shelley's "Westerly Wind", both poets showed a lot of inspiration in their poems. The Nightingale bird represents the supernatural phenomenon the speaker envisioned. The wind of "Westerly Winds" is inspired by the speaker and functions as "destroyer and defense". In poetry, in the "nightingale" the reader sees the poet making inspiration through poet drunken Tuga and some kind of opium. The poet talked about dying in the consumption of toxic drinks in the second quarter. The speaker hopes that "they disappear far away, disappear completely, forgetting / you never know (21-22) in the leaves". The speaker quotes life and all the bad aspects of the world that inspired him to think about suicide. This idea of ​​death and suicide is further explained by reference to Section VI.