| In literature nature has always been considered as an | | | | natural objects. Rather he mixed his own emotion |
| important topic. As a natural object, birds are also | | | | and creates a personal attachment with them.He also |
| have been mentioned in poetry. In fact, many poets | | | | expresses his own personal feelings such as |
| have written many beautiful poems on birds. Birds are | | | | happiness, sadness, hope, and frustration etc in his |
| often used as symbols in poetry too. For example, in | | | | poems. In Ode to a Nightingale Keats has expressed |
| Bangla literature the cuckoo bird is often associated | | | | a desire to escape from a harsh reality which he can |
| with spring time. In English literature there are many | | | | not tolerate. He wants to join the nightingale and fly |
| poems which are written about birds or birds play | | | | away into a dreamland.On the other hand |
| important role in the poems.For example, Ode to a | | | | S.T.Coleridge touched the supernatural elements of |
| Nightingale written by John Keats and Ode to a | | | | nature and has presented them in a very natural |
| Skylark of P B Shelly are two very famous poems | | | | way. Coleridge had a brilliant sense of imagination and |
| on birds. Another such poem is The Rime of the | | | | with his excellent narrative skills he could imagine the |
| Ancient Mariner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in which | | | | most supernatural thing and then describe it in the |
| the poet has used the Albatross as a symbol. | | | | most natural way. In The Rime of the Ancient |
| According to the requirement of the assignment I | | | | Mariner Coleridge has described the life of a mariner |
| have selected Ode to Nightingale by John Keats and | | | | who had killed an albatross and then suffered |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by S.T.Coleridge for | | | | immensely for killing it. The whole poem is based on |
| my discussion.Before discussing the above mentioned | | | | the reaction of killing the albatross. A bird is a |
| two poems it is needed to cast some light on the | | | | beautiful creation of god and by killing the albatross |
| two poets and the Romantic age in English literature | | | | without any reason the mariner had committed a |
| as a whole. The Romantic Age in English literature is a | | | | grave sin against god.Only at the twentieth century |
| unique era because in this age all the poets created | | | | men learned to fly like a bird before aero plane was |
| their poetry on nature and nature related topics. | | | | discovered men were always fascinated with the |
| Nature forms the main aspect of their poetry. Before | | | | idea of flying like a bird. According to Greek |
| them no poet could think of nature as the main | | | | mythology Daedalus and Icarus tried to imitate the |
| theme of a poem. The Romantic poets have | | | | birds and made artificial wings to fly. Their efforts |
| successfully implemented this theme. As a result, all | | | | failed in tragedy. So the concept of flying was like a |
| the great poems about birds were written in this age. | | | | dream to mankind until the beginning of the twentieth |
| John Keats was a Romantic poet who has | | | | century people marveled at the birds because they |
| worshipped beauty of nature in his poetry. Natural | | | | could fly in the sky. The poets also appreciated this |
| objects become lively and beautiful in his poem | | | | matter and their minds also wanted to fly with them. |
| however he does not treat them just as lifeless | | | | |