The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and, instead, explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly relevant to Keats. "Ode to a Nightingale" is a personal poem which describes Keats' journey into the state of negative capability. The poem is one of the most frequently anthologized in the English language. It soon became one of his 1819 odes and was first published in Annals of the Fine Arts the following July. Inspired by the bird's song, Keats composed the poem in one day. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near the house that he shared with Keats in the spring of 1819. " Ode to a Nightingale" is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place, also in Hampstead.
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