The initial feeling of the poem nightingale was somewhat dark and gloomy. The specific words such as death, darkness and sorrow made this idea more reasonable in many ways. And the specific theme of night was a part of this assumption as well. However as I was reading through the work and try to capture meanings behind this symbolic wordings, it came up to my mind that the author was actually adoring the bird in many ways. It might have been the freedom of the bird or limitless of it that was admirable. “Away! Away! For I will fly to thee” seems to portray the authors feeling. The idea of birds having a symbolic figure as freedom can be a supporting evidence to this thesis as well. “Thou was not born for death, immortal bird!” can be another example of the admiration. These were some of the ideas that I could caught from the initial view of “ode to a nightingale”.