 The image of the nightingale appears frequently in poetry of the period with it and its song described by poets as an example of "joyance" and gaiety or as an example of melancholy, sad, sorrowful, and mourning.However, many use the nightingale as a symbol of sorrow but without a direct reference to the Philomela myth.Poets in the Romantic Era recast the myth and adapted the image of the nightingale with its song to be a poet and "master of a superior art that could inspire the human poet".