AN OVERVIEW OF KEATS’ “ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE”

ABSTRACT

John Keats is one of the renowned poets who belong to the second generation of romantic poets along with Shelley and Byron. The second generation romantic poets were influenced with the spirit of revolution. Keats’ poetry is enriched with tendencies of Hellenism, Sensuousness and passion for beauty. In short span of his literary career he wrote six famous odes. From those “Ode to a Nightingale” is one. Keats’ most frequent quote is “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” is a part of his ambitious poem “Endymion” written in 1818. According to Shelley and Byron, Keats’ criticism in Blackwood magazine and Quarterly Review was the cause of his death. Here I penned down Ode to a Nightingale and the most focused area is how Keats escaped from the reality of real world, how he imagined the ideal world, why he rejected the ideal world and returns back to the real world to accept the true reality of life.

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