What is the background and significance of Keats' Ode to the Night?

According to Keats' friend Charles Brown, Ode to the Nightingale was written by Keats in May 18 19.

I spent three hours writing this article while listening to Ying Ge's music in the morning. It's so exquisite in such a short time.

In the history of poetry creation, poetry is rare, if not unique.

This hymn is divided into eight sections with ten lines each.

At the beginning of the poem, the poet sank into the realm of fantasy as if he had been drugged.

Out:

My heart is aching, sleepy and numb.

Into the senses, like drinking poison,

Like swallowing opium,

The whole body sinks into the forgotten river (1)

What supernatural power made him suddenly feel like he was in a dream? It turned out to be a song, especially the nightingale.

Beautiful cry.

Not because I'm jealous of your good luck,

It's your happiness that makes me so happy-

You, the light-winged tree god,

Rhyme beautifully

Forests with green shadows,

Indulge in singing beautiful summer days.

This is really a magical power. It is like poison and anesthetic, which makes people's physiological senses gradually.

Without its original function, people seem to be on cloud nine. Here, the poet did not describe the nightingale positively.

Song, but through the listener's feelings to reflect the sweet singing of the nightingale, to achieve the performance of singing beauty.

Faced with such a perfect song, the poet wants to blend in with it. But at this moment, his ego

The feeling has not completely disappeared, and he can still feel the "pain in his heart", so it is a kind of approach.

Dreaming, but not dreaming. In this case, the poet regards the nightingale as a tree god.

I am in May, but I seem to hear the nightingale singing summer.

It is not difficult to see that the poet is fascinated by singing. He doesn't feel pain because his heart is hurting.

But hopefully I can go with the song, forget everything in front of me and sink into the forgotten river bottom.

In order to make himself completely intoxicated, the poet thought of wine again;

Alas, if only there were a sip of wine!

Old wine frozen in the cellar,

A taste will remind people of the green earth.

Think about the goddess of flowers, love songs, and the joy in the sun!

I hope to have a cup of warmth from the south,

Full of real deep red inspiration,

The rim of the cup sparkled with pearly foam,

The red lips;

Oh, I'm going to drink and die peacefully,

Hiding in the dark forest with you.

After careful reading, it is not difficult to find that the wine referred to by the poet has its symbolic significance. First of all,

What he wants is not other wine, but fine wine that has been refrigerated in underground kiln for many years. This drink from the earth,

Of course, it is even more intoxicating. Drinking it will naturally think of warm sunshine and nature.

The floral fragrance and green scenery remind people of the grand occasion of singing and dancing in the embrace of nature. Secondly,

What he wants is wine made by the fountain of inspiration. In the original poem, the poet used a proper noun, which means "Miao"

According to legend, this spring in southern Greece is a source of inspiration. Whoever drinks it will do.

Get the inspiration of poetry.

In this poem, the poet once again stubbornly expressed his views. He has always believed in nature

It is beautiful and generous, without hypocrisy, fraud and sin in the world, but it can involve people.

Of all things, poetry is the noblest and most beautiful. Only they can make people really intoxicated.

Thinking about this, the poet entered the illusion again, and even seemed to see the bubbles and quilts on the edge of the cup.

His lips were dyed red with wine. But in the last two lines, the poet clearly tells the reader that he is back.

Forgotten river: the legendary river in hades. Drink the water inside and you will forget everything.

To the self, this leads to the third verse of the whole poem.

Far away, far away, completely forgotten

Everything you don't know among the leaves.

Forget fatigue, fever and anxiety,

Forget this world that makes people sit and sigh,

Here, the paralyzed old man got rid of the last bit of sadness.

Sad white hair,

Young people become pale, emaciated and die young;

Here, a little thinking is full of sadness,

Eyes without god, despair;

Beauty can't keep the brilliance of bright eyes forever,

The new love will wither before tomorrow.

In this section, the poet clearly answers the question he left for readers in the first two sections: what is it?

He has so much pain and trouble in his heart, why should he escape from this mortal world?

And lament! For all this, the poet has a personal experience. Shortly before writing this ode, the poet's brother

My brother Tom was skinny because of lung disease and finally died in the poet's arms.

Pale, emaciated, and premature death "probably refers to this matter. The poet was born in poverty, but he was very talented.

Will come into contact with the sufferings of the lower classes, and thus have a deeper feeling. In his works, the old people

Sitting and complaining about life, young people are terminally ill and leave life. Life is just a pity.

It's incomprehensible. Beauty is fading, and love cannot last long. In that case, what's the point of life?

Let's leave it! Therefore, the beginning of the fourth quarter is:

Let's go Let's go I want to fly to you,

Instead of driving Dionysus's car with a leopard,

But with the invisible wings of the poet,

Although the mind has been sleepy and tired;

If, in the second quarter, the poet thinks that wine can make people intoxicated, then, at this time, this is very clear.

Wake up that drinking too much wine is not enough to solve the problem. So he thought of poetry. In fact, he

The second section has been thought of. So he went on to say:

I am already with you! The night is infinitely gentle,

A few months later, she ascended the throne,

Guards surrounded by stars, accompanied by immortals;

But there is no light here,

Only a ray of sky light, with the breeze,

Through the lush dusk and the moss on the winding path

Dionysus's unexpected position was achieved by the power of poetry. The poet entered a transcendental realm.

State. It was clearly in the sun, but he felt that he saw the moon become a queen in the moonlight.

The stars seemed to surround her like attendants. The phrase "the night is infinitely gentle" is quite concise, which means the beauty of the moonlit night.

And accurate summary, memorable. This technique of depicting beautiful scenery in a mirage can be found in Keats' poems.

It often appears in poetry. In the poem Antimian, the poet used this writing technique many times. however

Andy Mian's illusion disappeared immediately, but in this ode, the poet's illusion has always existed.

Perhaps the poet wants to tell us that the power of poetry is enormous, and only poetry can help people get rid of evil.

Evil society. He continued his fantasy:

I can't see clearly what flowers are under my feet.

I can't see the fragrance of lingering branches,

But in the warm darkness, I can guess,

What fragrance should there be at this time,

Give this fruit tree, jungle and green grass;

This white hawthorn flower, the rose in the wood leaf,

Violets that are easy to wither in green leaves;

The earliest flowers in May,

This musk rose is in bud with dew,

On summer nights, blue flies buzz and keep spinning.

The poet can't see it, because the mountain is still in illusion. In this world, he didn't

I touched the beauty of nature with my eyes instead of other senses and smelled all kinds of flowers. this

The poet's moral is clear. In his view, poetry is not only a power of imagination, but also a kind of.

Supernatural power, which can make people get the beauty they seek under any circumstances. This kind of beauty, though

Nothing is ethereal, but it relieved his heart disease more or less.

But what poetry can bring, or what people can imagine, is in reality after all.

Or something that might exist. Roses, roses, violets and hawthorn flowers are realistic.

Entity can't escape the natural law of birth, illness and death. No matter how beautiful the flowers are, they will eventually wither and wither.

And death are all painful things. It seems that only the fairy in the forest-the nightingale is really happy.

Even its songs are so sweet that people forget the pain. The poet then thought, if it is in the nightingale,

It is a kind of enjoyment to die with singing, which not only enjoys the taste of bliss, but also avoids frequency.

Frequent life troubles. So, just unbearable death-"The young man turned pale.

White, thin, die young ",and then become" quiet and carefree ".

The sixth verse of this poem begins like this:

I listened to it many times in the dark.

Almost fell in love with a comfortable death,

I often call him in my poems,

Ask him to spread my breath into the air;

Today's death has become more magnificent,

I wish I could die painlessly at midnight,

Before you pour out your heart

It's time to enjoy singing!

Obviously, the poet thinks that dying in such a song is not terrible, but also becomes meaningful.

Then why do you want to die?

The poet's own experience is the answer to this question. Since he was eight years old, his family has been hit again and again.

Death attack. Father fell to his death, mother died of illness, grandfather died, grandmother died, and he was not even twenty years old.

Suffering from lung disease and the work left over from writing in the past four years, my 15-year-old little brother was buried in front of him.

Tired from a sore throat and worried about the future, he naturally thought of death. however

Poets are not pessimists. He loves life, but hates cold reality. His whole life.

Strive for an ideal and beautiful kingdom.

It is precisely because he saw the beauty of his ideal in the field of art that he got it.

Such a strong desire to "die" to get rid of this world. It should be said that this kind of life is in poetry.

The idea itself is Keats' artistic pursuit. So, it's not an impulse.

It's not funny.

After the poet thought of death, he immediately realized that once he really died, that night

Isn't warbler's song meaningless?

At that time, you will still sing, but I will no longer hear.

Your songs can only be sung to the mud and grass.

In this way, the poet reveals a kind of ambivalence here: he wants to leave the dark world before him,

I'm afraid of being separated from the nightingale hiding in the forest. I'm really at a loss!

Because of the thought of death, the poet naturally further connected with the nightingale's home-

You won't die, immortal bird!

The famine years can't knock you down.

This song I heard tonight,

The ancient kings and villagers also heard it.

This song may have been moved.

Luther's melancholy heart made her stand up.

In the foreign wheat field, tears wet my coat.

Maybe even call the police.

The princess looked at the possessed window sash in the stormy waves.

On that lonely fairy tale island.

At this point, ode to poetry reached its climax. For many years, human beings have experienced vicissitudes and are on the verge of hunger and suffering.

Struggle in the world, but the nightingale's song is immortal, immortal and enduring. Therefore, the poet clarified

Such a view: good things are eternal, and nothing can be destroyed by the change of the world.

It ...

Not only that, the poet also ingeniously infiltrated poetry into the Bible. According to the Bible ("old"

According to John Luther, Luther was the ancestor of King David. After her husband died, she left her hometown and lived alone.

Xiang, who lived with her mother-in-law, once picked wheat ears in Boaz's field, and later married Boaz. this

In the film, the poet, with his own imagination, seems to see Luther suddenly fall into his homesick eyes in Song of the Nightingale.

Tears.

The last three-line poem is romantic and has been rated as a typical romantic poem.

Features. In medieval European legendary literature, it is often described that there is a seat on the vast sea.

A lonely castle controlled by magic, in which lived a beautiful princess who was imprisoned and secluded. If someone is religious,

The brave knight comes, removes the magic, and can marry and start a family with the princess.

It is not the real world, but a legendary imaginary world. However, even the legendary characters,

You can also hear the nightingale singing. Look, on that island far from the waves, the imprisoned men.

God is also fascinated by this song. She went to the window and listened quietly. Keats borrowed this romantic color.

Legendary stories are embedded in their own poems. Although there are only a few strokes, their ingenuity is unique.

Achieved the infinite charm of nightingale singing.

It is because of the loneliness of the princess in the castle that the poet suddenly thought of himself. In this indifference,

He is so lonely in the world that he can't help but blurt out in the next section:

Lonely! These two words are like bells,

Send me back to my lonely place!

These two lines suddenly drove away the illusion and brought him back to the real world. male

After listening carefully, I found that the nightingale had flown away.

Oh, goodbye! Hallucinations! You are charming.

Little devil,

Stop playing your famous stunts.

Farewell! Farewell! The song you complain about

Through the lawn, through the stream,

Fly over the hillside; Now it has been deeply

Buried in a nearby mountain.

The nightingale flew away, but its song still lingered in my ears, and people returned to reality, but their thoughts were still there.

On the extension of illusion, the poet is not sure whether this sudden change is true or a dream.

Hey, is this an illusion or a daytime dream?

Singing:-I fell asleep, or

wake up

The whole poem ends with these two questions, but the implication of the whole poem leaves readers with infinite excitement.

The thought of heaven and earth makes people think deeply.