The Nightingale
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- Created on: 22-08-19 18:33
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- The Nightingale
- Themes
- Nature
- Art and Culture
- Sadness
- Transformation
- Definitions:
- melancholy
- a feeling of pensive sadness
- philomela
- greek mythological figure who's connected to Nightingale's
- melancholy
- melancholy = a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
- Melancholy in Coleridge's time related to a form of depression which was romanticised to the end that many writers gained credit from a melancholy tone.
- "It is a vision that reaches towards a consistent philosophy of mans harmonious place in nature."
- Richard Holmes
- It is argued that the poem consistently alludes to and sustains a debate with Milton.
- Fred Randal
- Blank verse
- "old mossy bridge!"
- "And hark! the nightingale begins its song"
- "'Most musical and most melancholy' bird!"
- "In nature there is nothing melancholy"
- "Poet who hath been building up the rhyme"
- "Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself // Be loved like Nature!"
- "A most gentle maid"
- "Glides through the pathways, she knows all their notes"
- "To make him Nature's play-mate"
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