Poem Nightingale and Rose

Various point of view

Introduction

Birds love their life they also love their beloved truly. But they don’t know about fickleness of human love and they don’t know about the instant fancies of immature human mind that we call love. Knowing not this cost nightingale in Oscar Wild’s “The nightingale and rose”

Title

Two chief words are important here in the title nightingale and rose. In fact this is a story of young student and his love. But the nightingale became the central character hence, it is absolutely suitable.

Characterization

This is a different type of story written in poetic style. It is like fairy tale. Wild has made use of personification and that’s why only human beings. The young boy and the girl are not the character but the nightingale, butterfly. Some other creatures like the moon, the oak tree. The rose tree etc. have their own role. though this is a story of young students desire to get red rose. The nightingale turns out to be the central character.

Setting

The place or location in the story is mainly a beautiful garden. Most of the part develops here. At the end the setting shifts to the girl’s house. Most of the story develops in the pleasant and beautiful atmosphere.

Summary

This is a touching story of the sacrifice of the nightingale for the sake of human love. The young boy is worried in the beginning of the story because of his worried in the beginning of the story because of his beloveds condition that she would dance with him if he brought her the red rode. Unfortunately the young biy gets the red rose but on the other hand the lovely birds loses her life. When very enthusiastic young boy presents the red rose to the girl and she rejects. It by saying that she has got a real jackpot chamberlain nephew and she also comments that,

 “Jewels cost for more than flowers”

  The boy feels disappointed and angrily throws the rose into the street where it falls into the gutter and cart – wheal goes over it. The disappointed lover returns to his book and reading.

Style

Oscar wild emerges here as a unique short story teller. This treatment to the story teller. This treatment to the story is highly poetic. He has made use of figure of speech like personification. Some of the finest statement.  In this way Wilde’s style is really magnificent that makes a story a charming one.

Conclusion

This is a story of sacrifice of a nightingale for the sake of human love. even through there are always immortal love stories among the mortal human beings. Most often their passions are last and misnamed as love.