Ode to a Nightingale
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: （toward Lethe) 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, (it is) But being too happy in thine happiness – That thou, light winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Group 5 Member：彭睿、岳璐 罗雪亮、叶倩倩
Catalogue
About the author The creation background Theme of poem Metrical Pattern Ode to a Nightingale Analysis of Ode to a Nightingale Rhetorical devices Conclusion
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been (has) Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, (cooled) Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth, That I may drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.
Representative works
The Eve of St Agnes 《圣爱格尼斯之夜》 Ode to a Nightingale 《夜莺颂》 Ode on a Grecian Urn 《希腊古翁颂》 To Autumn 《秋颂》 ……
The creation background
The author ‘s life
1795:He was borned in a poor family, and he has two brothers and only one sister 1804: His father died 1810:His mother died of tuberculosis（肺结核） 1815：He entered a medical school , but gave up with in a year 1818~1820:He created most of his wissolve, and quite forget What thou amongst the leaves hast never known, (have) The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs. Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs; Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Metrical Pattern
(韵律) The poem contains eight stanzas. All the lines in each stanza are in iambic pentameter(抑扬格五步格诗), with the exception of the eighth line which has only three feet is in iambic trimester(抑扬格音步).
In 1818， Keats 23 year old
Tuberculosis (肺结核)
Emotion: Anxious Yearn
Brother died
He is fall in the love
Theme of poem
Theme : This ode was inspired by the singing of a nightingale that had built its nest close to the house of a friend of the poet in Hampstead（汉普斯特德）. He doesn’t only expresses it, but also shows his deep sympathy for and his keen understanding of human miseries in the society in which he lived.