As for the origin of this poem, Keats's friend Charles Brown once recalled: "In the spring of 1819, there was a nightingale nesting near my house. Keats felt the excitement from its cry. A kind of quiet and lasting pleasure. One day after breakfast, Keats moved a chair and sat on the lawn under the plum tree for two or three hours. He was holding a few pieces of paper, and later I learned that the paper recorded his poetic feelings when he heard the nightingale singing." It can be seen that Keats was driven by inspiration to improvise this most touching "Ode to a Nightingale".
"Ode to a Nightingale" is a masterpiece among Keats's lyric poems. Both the language and the artistic conception are extremely beautiful, but it is by no means a simple tapestry of gorgeous rhetoric, but a sad and heavy portrayal of life. . It reflects Keats's life dilemma of being unable to seek beauty and being unable to satisfy his desires. There is heavy sadness permeating between the lines, which is deeply touching.
Throughout the whole poem, we can see that Keats focuses on portraying an ecstatic state of selflessness and the intervening dull brain (objective reality) brought about by the fantasy world of beauty. ) conflicts. There are always two forces competing for the soul of poetry: fantasy and reality. "The song has gone: - Am I sleeping? Am I awake?" The end of this lingering sentence brings us readers into the poet's lost confusion, and at the same time allows us to see the causes of life with the poet in a clear mind. The sweet singing of the nightingale makes it even more difficult.
This poem has 8 stanzas, each stanza has 10 lines. It is a combination of sorrow and joy, with beautiful melody, which is highly praised by people. The whole poem is mostly in iambic pentameter, and the rhyme scheme is ababcdecde.