What bird so sings, yet so does wail?
O 'tis the ravish'd nightingale.
Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu! she cries,
And still her woes at midnight rise.
Brave prick-song! Who is't now we hear?
None but the lark so shrill and clear;
Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,
The morn not waking till she sings.
Hark, hark, with what a pretty throat
Poor robin redbreast tunes his note!
Hark how the jolly cuckoos sing
Cuckoo! to welcome in the spring!
Cuckoo! to welcome in the spring!
The title of the poem brings up the passing of winter and spring coming. The main character of the poem are the birds. The nightingale sings her woes at midnight. The morning doesn't come until the robin sings. The birds welcome in the spring with their songs.
sincerely yours,
the breakfast club basketcase
I think you can go deeper on the passing of winter and spring and how it relates of the transition of the tone. It transitions also from night to day with the nightingale, to the bright and colorful robin of the day-time. The heaven's gate line should be gone into more in the imagery of the bird ascending to the heaven for yet another transition.
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