Ode to a Nightingale The poem Ode to a Nightingale is John Keats’s focus on the Nightingale’s joyful state of being and his ability to identify and with the creature, but also at the same time achieves the feeling of separation from the bird. In stanza one, the reader can depict the symbol of happiness through the nightingale. A fine example shown in text that illustrates the bird’s happiness to an extent …showed first 75 words of 402 total…

…showed last 75 words of 402 total…In stanza five the mention of flowers blooming and dying shows the changing of seasons throughout the year or more precisely the beginnings and ends of a lifetime. In this stanza he becomes aware of his mortal life and has the desire of hearing it while in death, as did “by the emperor and clown” of ancient days. The last stanza depicts the narrator’s rhetorical question that asks whether he is awake or asleep.