WebANNE FINCH S "NIG HTINGALE" Poetical Character," Gray's "The Progress of Poesy," and Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" all lament the loss of a power that was conventionally attributed to the Muses and thus deny the possibility of a naive art of pure song. WebTo the Nightingale By Countess of Winchilsea Anne Finch Exert thy voice, sweet harbinger of spring! Finch uses the elevated status of the Nightingale to contrast her own human suffering and critique the patriarchal society she lives under which oppresses Finch and prevents her from reaching the Freedom that the Nightingale embodies. "frequently found themselves denied opportunities for publication and Poets, wild as thee, were born, Pleasing best when unconfin'd, When to Please is least design'd, Can thy Words such Accents fit, public activity; for a woman to do so was, in the Augustan period, risque Free as thine shall be my Song; As thy Musick, short, or long. Judge not my passion by my want of skill: Many love well, though they express it ill; And I your censure could with pleasure bear. This idea is also explored in Coleridges poem where the Nightingale is described as the minstrel of the moon! Similar to Finch, Coleridge also uses an exclamation mark to showcase his excitement and adoration towards the Nightingale and alliteration is employed in minstrel and moon to reinforce the Nightingale as a powerful figure who like the moon has power over nature. Skill to my Hand, but to describe my Heart; In addition to celebrating her love, Finchs earliest verse also records her own frustration and sense of loss following her departure from court in 1689. And to her straggling brood the partridge calls; Their shortlived jubilee the creatures keep. Poets, wild as thee, were born, Pleasing best when unconfined, This signifies an important tone shift in the poem. In Ardelia to Melancholy Finch similarly presents a struggle against melancholy and depression, casting the disease as an inveterate foe and Tyrant powr from which heavn alone can set her free. The poem shifts from the first to the third person, generalizing Ardelias particular experience to encompass all those who suffer from melancholia: All, that coud ere thy ill got rule, invade, / Their uselesse arms, before thy feet have laid; / The Fort is thine, now ruind, all within, / Whilst by decays without, thy Conquest too, is seen. The imperial language of the poem might also suggest a more abstract relation between her submission to the spleen and her status as a political exile. WebTill the fierce winds, that vainly strive To shock thy greatness whilst alive, Shall on thy lifeless hour attend, Prevent the axe, and grace thy end; Their scatter'd strength together call And to the clouds proclaim thy fall; Who then their ev'ning dews may spare When thou no longer art their care, But shalt, like ancient heroes, burn, To The Nightingale
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