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Ode to a Nightingale Poem Analysis - Coggle Diagram
Ode to a Nightingale Poem Analysis
Stanza 1
Intensity of emotion charted through conflicting imagery
Pain versus joy separated
Allusion to classical history and the suicide of Socrates (he had been put on trial and sentenced to death and he chose to drink hemlock)
Synaethesia - sensory bombardment
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Lightness of 'dryad' and 'singest
Compare the language inthe first to second half of stanza - d,p,m sounds
Power in death
Imagery focuses on pain vs joy "heart aches" "numbness pains" vs "happy" "light winged" "melodious"
Onomatapoeic sounds are used to separate the emotions
Allusion to classical history
The death of greatness but power in that as socrates chose to be his own executioner
'my' authoritoral intrusion creates a personal tone not seen in the other odes - it feels deeply personal
freedom is something beyond
Stanza 2
Jubilant second stanza
Alliteration "beaded bubbles winking at the brim"- onomatopoeic
Reference to wine facilitates the world of fantasy the poet seeks
Stanza 3
Intensity of numbing imagery
Personification of 'beauty' and 'love' - intense virtues
why "far away"
the poetic voice is escaping the real world of the nightingale
suffering and ageing acknowledged
Stanza 5
Ironic use of 'easeful' that echoes the 'full throated ease' referenced in Stanza 1
yearns to die - distances himself from nightingale
Why does the poetic voice now hear the song as a requiem?
Stanza 4
Cannot see so consumed by other sense
Incense could emphasize the density and headiness of the perfume - seems visible and tangible.
Was death anticipate back in stanza 1
What is the significance of leaping to seasons come?
embalmed -fragrant or preserving body?
Season is spring - not blooming until mid-May