济慈和夜莺颂 英文版介绍

Good morning，everybody. It’s my honor to stand here to give my speech. Now, let ’s enter into the inner world of John Keats and his dying work, ode to a nightingale.

First, there is a brief introduction about Keats. Keats was born in a poor family in London, October, 31, 1795. After Byron and Shelley, he was the latest born of the great Romantic poets. His famous poem, such as ode to a nightingale, ode to autumn, and Ode on a Grecian Urn has been well passed down from the previous generation.

Second, the background of this poem. It’s said that the reason why the song of nightingale is so beautiful and impressive is that the bird uses its life to sing its final song. When the night falls and moon high rises on the sky, nightingale makes the thorn stab into its breast, and then sings by the blood from its heart. The more blood it loses, the more fair-sounding it ’s song is. Maybe you have a question, why the nightingale should stab the thorn into its breast to sing? That ’s because it wants to dedicate its best, so the bird uses it’s the most precise thing, its life to sing its best song. The same case happens on the poet.

On a morning at the year he died, the poet with serious disease, facing the poor finance condition and bearing the pain from love, sited under a tree and listened to the song of a nightingale. All sense of life came to his mind, he felt so complexed and his thought swarmed out his heart like flood. And he ran into the room and wrote down his peak work before his death. That’s the dead song of nightingale, and also the dead song of Keats.

Third, it’s time that we appreciated the poem. The poem has 8 stanzas and about 80 lines. In this masterpiece, although the poem was named by nightingale, the writer didn ’t make more description on the nightingale, but used its image to express his mood and thought.

First, pain and happiness. On the beginning, the writer struggles in the contradiction between pain and happiness. Life is so pain and unfair of Keats. He has suffered the poorness, the death of his parents at his little age and frustration of love. But now, he heard the song from nightingale in the morning, loud, clear and power, full of the eagerness and aspiration of life. It’s by the strong emotion that the despair poet reignited the fire of life and brought the writer with happiness into a world full of love. But the writer didn’t envy the lucky bird, and did hope the bird can take him to the paradise forever. The pain from the real world and the happiness from nightingale is first contrast in the poem.

Second, imagination and reality. From the second stanza to the fifth stanza, the contrast between imagination and reality is a big focus of the poem. With the powerful and lively singing, the poet thinks of the wine, because only wine can make his unconscious and give him a pair of wings to follow the nightingale to get away from the cruel life. It’s not escapism, because the love of life in poet’s heart compels him to look forward to and run after a perfect world. This is an affirmation of nature, and also the eulogy of life.

Third, death and life. From the sixth stanza to the last stanza, suddenly the poet realizes that everything in the world will be ended by death. Outside the death and life, between the pain and happiness, not afraid of the end of life and wishing a better living, Keats uses death to sing a peerless song. Because poet knows that he will die

soon but the nightingale can live longer, poet affectionately sings the ode to nightingale to praise its bright life. The nightingale gives the poet with endless hope to pour all his thoughts and affection to the birds to get thought the world. But with the end of the bid’s song, the poet comes to real life again.

In conclusion, nightingale is a symbol of the extreme love of life, while the worn-out Keats who wants to devote all his power to the last a psalm of life uses the image of nightingale to achieve his dream. It’s lucky for both of them.