This poem is also an ode, a type of lyric poem that has an elevated style and a serious subject. This is a lyric poem which is often a short poem with only one speaker who is expressing complex emotions. Upon his return, the scraps of paper on which he had written his thoughts became ‘Ode to a Nightingale’. While residing with his friend, Charles Brown, in the spring of 1819 Keats was observed sitting by the garden for several hours listening to a nightingale’s song.
This ‘let things be theory’ can be seen in such present day authors as Philip Pullman in his The Subtle Knife. Keats believed in the theory of negativity which stipulates that ‘being uncertain’ allows a mind to access a well of knowledge. 2 About John Keats Born in 1795, died in 1821
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