ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’Ode to a Nightingale’ is one of John Keats’ great odes, written in May 1819, when the poet was just 23 years old. The poem is dominated by thoughts of death, underpinned by meditations on immortality and on the finite nature of joy.

Detailed explanation-2: -’Ode to a Nightingale’ is one of John Keats’ great odes, written in May 1819, when the poet was just 23 years old. The poem is dominated by thoughts of death, underpinned by meditations on immortality and on the finite nature of joy.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near the house that he shared with Keats in the spring of 1819. Inspired by the bird’s song, Keats composed the poem in one day. It soon became one of his 1819 odes and was first published in Annals of the Fine Arts the following July.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1819 John Keats wrote five of his most famous “odes.” These odes included “Ode on a Grecian Urn, ” “Ode on Indolence, ” “Ode on Melancholy, ” “Ode to a Nightingale, ” and “Ode to Psyche.” Critics cite these poems as some of Keats’ best work.

Detailed explanation-5: -In Greek mythology, “Lethe” was a river in Hades (the Underworld) that made people forget all their memories if they drank from it. There’s really no way to dance around it: the speaker is comparing his feeling to being totally strung out on drugs.