 Some solace for thy woes did Heaven afford,
Clothed thee with soft brown plumes, and life apart from wail(ing)—


In his "Poetics", Aristotle points to the ″voice of the shuttle″ in Sophocles′ tragedy "Tereus" as an example of a poetic device that aids in the ″recognition″—the change from ignorance to knowledge—of what has happened earlier in the plot.Such a device, according to Aristotle, is ″contrived″ by the poet, and thus is ″inartistic.″.The connection between the nightingale's song and poetry is evoked by Aristophanes in his comedy "The Birds" and in the poetry of Callimachus.