Ode to a Nightingale Flashcards
1
Q
Rev C.A Johns ‘British Birds in their Haunts’
A
‘if the Nightingale’s song comprised the wailing notes alone, it would be universally shunned as the most painful melancholy sound in nature.’
2
Q
Helen Vendler - beauty
A
Nightingale is a symbol of pure beauty, nonrepresentational, with no references to ideas, moral or social values.
3
Q
Helen Vendler - bower of ‘embalmed darkness’
A
the tryst in this particular bower seems to be with death.
