ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE

ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE 

Introduction :-

John Keats

John Keats ' (1795 -1891 ) Mother , and good friend Richard Wood house all died of tuberculosis , which was then termed " consumption ,." He long suspected that he had the disease himself , and when on February 3, 1820 , her has a sere hemorrhage of the lungs , he knew that he could not survive another English winter . Despite moving to Rome , he succumbed to " consumption " in the winter of 1821 .the realization that  he was likely " when I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain " and " O for ten years , to overwhenlm myself in poesy!It also perhaps explains Keats's astounding productively , for he did not start writing poetry until just a few years before he died .

The son of a liveryman , he was thoroughly working class , not the sort expected to have poetic aspirations . His mother , Frances ( Jennings remarried two months after his father's death in 1804 but left her husband soon after died in 18101 . After their grandmother's  death four years late the brother were left alone .

At the Clarke school , John was noted for his pugnacity , especially for his size - he was barely over five feet tall .he was apprenticed in 1811 to an apothecary - surgeon ,and passed his examination in 1816 . As one biographer  puts it , he then went on vacation and returned a practicing poet . His fatal illness lasted more than a year before his death early in 1821 , his entire career was  to last barely three and a half years .1818 was in may ways the most eventful year of his life ; his brother George married and move d to America ; in the summer he went on a walking tour of the Lake district and Scotland with his friend Charles Brown ; he met Fanny Brawne , the great love of his life , in the fall , while at the same time nursing his brother Tom , who died in December .

During the first few months of 1819 , he  wrote his masterworks , including the great odes . Jack Stillinger thinks that it is this combined experience of suffering ,death , and love all at once ,against a background of serious conversation , reading , and thinking , that accounts for Keats's sudden rise to excellence in his poetry .