My Second Essay for FCS369Y: Irony and Pierre de Ronsard’s “Nightingale” All night the nightingale hears Ronsard’s pleas.Singing, sighing, the bird learns of love scorned.It knows life without love is a heart torn,But it may not see the poem’s irony. Pierre de Ronsard constructs the poem by comparing himself to a nightingale, fluttering from tree to tree and warbling its song during the night, hoping to find true love. The foundation of the metaphor is the role the nightingale as a symbol for tragic love in literature. In his cathedral for Marie d’Anjou, Ronsard used some conventional architecture, such as …