Keats, "Ode to Nightingale

Ode to a Nightingale

The world is full of chaos and disorders justice is rarely found. Melville writes in the letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne "But truth is the silliest thing under the sun"(65). How this world goes!

Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;

where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,

where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies.

(Keats, "Ode to Nightingale,"24-6)

John Keats in the above verse depicts the condition of man who is sad, diseased, pale and thin, and whose life is perpetually under groan, pangs and suffering. The same condition is of the modern man where Billy cannot escape. He is amid the suffering, groan and pang. His desires are paralyzed. His grief and despair are the product of world wars. Meantime Melville comes into this world and he depicts the theme of 20^th century tragic vision in his stories and novels. He presents contemporary problems caused by the outbreak of the war. It is his age that provided the subjects maters for his stories and novels. He modified all these subject mattes with his personal experiences. His chief preoccupation has been the portrayal of hardship of the external world and his main character's excessive capacity of endurance and fortitude. Billy is the one who never tried to understand the Dansker's comment about Claggart attitude. He couldn't under4stnad the world is not like him who endure all sorts of accusation.