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The theme of change is also present in this poem. This is seen when there is a rhetorical question asked
that says "Where are the songs of Spring?".
"Ode to a Nightingale"
- Creative Expression vs. Mortality of Human life: passing of life and tragedies of old age contrast to the
immortal flowing music of the nightingale.
wants to use alcohol to escape at first then desires to flee with the bird (happiness/hope)
happy vicariously in the bird's happiness
connects with the bird, not reality
wants to use the "viewless wings" of poetry to reach the bird
admits that the music makes him ponder over his debate about embracing the idea of dying
and submitting to death while vicariously living through the nightingale's music.
Life = Disappointment and Pain.
The 7th stanza's thoughts lead him to saying forlorn, his imagination must leave him.
The experience makes him long for the nightingale and hope and happiness.
Speaker debates his actual state
Themes:
- The efffects of time:
Time might change many things but it does not change art. The love for the art does not die,
which is why it says "Forever piping songs forever new; More happy love! more happy, happy
love!"
- Art:
Art is undisturbed unlike life. It is eternal and eternity leads to loss of concern.
Art, the urn, represents beauty. Beauty is truth and so art also represents truth.
Themes:
- Death:
As the title of the poem implies the speaker of the poem fears what might happen when he
dies.
The speaker wants to have an effect through his writing so that he some how lives on even
though he is gone. The speaker sees death as the End and so he wants to do something before
that.