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This 10 page paper discusses, analyzes and philosophizes about John Keats' Ode on A Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale. Elements of Romanticism are exampled and discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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glimpsed it, or perhaps have had a sense of their own mortality, seem able to capture and describe the symbiotic relationship, the Yin and Yang, if you will, of the
human soul. Jonathan Keats, a romantic poet, utilized elements of the Romantic era, but as such did not succumb to the grand generalizations or abstractions as many of the time
did. In two of his classic poems, Ode to a Grecian Urn, and Ode to a Nightingale, one is able to see Keats quest to understand the nature of man.
One decidedly Romantic element is the use of nature and the spiritual, but where most Romantic poets and their poems have a decidedly uplifting quality to it, Keats poem seems
depressed and he seems to question the nature of a persons experience and awareness. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as
though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute
past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot(Keats, li 1-5).
Keats diverges, in point, in the final influence of nature and the
role nature plays. Most Romantic poets seemed to take the perspective that the purpose of nature was to rejuvenate and restore the soul. Understanding nature and ones place within it
was a liberating factor where poets such as Wordsworth was concerned, however in Nightingale, Keats would tend to disagree vehemently, stating that the mind stood in the way of the
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