NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Chapter 11 Ode to Nightingale

Ans : While sitting under a plum tree in the garden of his house, in Hampstead, Keats stroked with an idea to compose a poem called “Ode to a Nightingale.” He has inspired the song that nightingale was singing. The poet composed the poem keeping in mind the melodious voice of a nightingale, and the mood of the poem was melancholic. Song of Nightingale is compared with Lethe river water as he was feeling that he was happy and forgot about death, as he was fully mesmerized by her song. 

Ans : Poet is celebrating happiness his happiness along with the song of the nightingale. Keats dreams of escaping sorrow and sadness that life presents him. The poet wants to escape all the unpleasant and sad things. He wishes that he could be free like a bird high and fly high without any limits, and human life presents all the gloomy things and sad. While thinking about the poem he writes various things that human experiences and bird doesn’t. The bird never sits like an old man. 

Ans : In this poem, Keats tells about the problems in the life of human being when he compared things with a life of that nightingale. Sitting under a tree he was admiring the environment around him and listens that makes him happy with a bird’s song, he was enjoying the beauty of nature. He was sad though, thinking one day we all will die. He tells us that the world is in constant motion of flux and change. The beauty makes him sad as it will end one day. 

Ans : While the poet laments the loss of human life he enjoys the song of the nightingale. He is mesmerized by the song and finds peace in it. He was taken aback by the beauty of her song. He predicts that while the world gets old and decay her song would remain youthful as ever. He wants to fly like a bird and keep listening to the melodious voice. He realizes that whatever he has been dreaming is not possible. He praises the melodious voice which will remain forever while mankind may come and go. 

Ans : When Keats was listening to the bird’s song, the nightingale moves away from him. The song of the bird was distant now, and suddenly poet tossed back from ecstasy into despair. He realizes what he is thinking are mere dreams; it’s the ultimate truth that human life is mortal. He again came into the real world with the same sorrow feeling that we all will die one day and the bird will move on forever
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