1. Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
S.B.Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavangar University
Prepared by:
Minkal Italiya
Dhaval Diyora
Richa Pandya
Urvashi Chauhan
2. John Keats
Born- 31st October 1795
Death- 23rd February 1821
Main figure of the second generation
along with Lord Byron and P.B.Shelley.
Today his poems and letters are some of the
most popular and most analysed in English
Literature.
3. Famous Odes of John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Psyche
Ode to Autumn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
4. What is an Ode?
An Ode is a lyrical poem, typically one in
the form of an address to a particular
subject, written in varied or irregular
meter.
5. Ode to a Nightingale
This poem is about love of sensuous beauty, a touch of
pessimism, a purely pagan conception of nature and a strong
individualism.
The poem was written a few months after the death of the
poet’s brother.
7. Theme of Ode to a Nightingale
The main theme of “Ode to a Nightingale” is negative
capability and its power to aid the speaker in his
transcendence of mortal pain and grief
Version of Reality
Happiness
Mortality
Transience
Man and the Natural World
8. The Nightingale Uncovered
So we can say that in the poem Nightingale is not
merely a bird…..but something more. Keats might
mean it to symbolize as: Joy, Nature or Keats
himself.
“Ode to a Nightingale” is about transcending to
an ideal world.
9. Conclusion
It can be concluded that moral of it is that there
may be temporary escape from grimness of
human life, but in the end everyone has to return
to reality and accept our mortality and this
acceptance won’t affect our capability to
appreciate beauty.