The Nightingale knows something we don't...

In Response to The Nightingale by Samuel T. Coleridge...
Towards the end of the poem the speaker recalls a night when his child was distressed. He discusses how he has tried to make his son a child of nature. On this night he takes his son outside where he is mesmerized by the moon. The moon and nature have this ability to calm him. I think the purpose here is
to admire the power of nature. The Nightingale becomes a symbol of this power. I like that the Nightingale is really the only one in the poem who knows nature in all its beauty, at night, when if anything it is less likely to be seen and appreciated. In many ways the nightingale and the child are similar. The nightingale's
cries are described as being "melancholy" and it is at night when the bird is most likely to sing some beautiful tunes. This child who cries has an experience similar to the nightingale's. He cries in the night but is
moved by the night. This poem I believe reminds us to appreciate the influence nature has on us. Sometimes it is the simplest things that can catch our atttention, For, the nightingale it is nature at night.