Part one of term paper
John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” depicts a timeless theme relevant in any society throughout the history of our civilization. Through his use of movement and of language, Keats has created a work of art in its own right whose overall idea and inspiration will remain unchanged generation after generation. The necessity for infusion ...

Part two of term paper
... recent passing of his brother Tom. Despite such heartbreaking troubles, he composes “Ode on a Grecian Urn” in an attempt to find poetical existence beyond his too-short human lifetime. As Keats tries to find some sense of permanence in an ever more apparently impermanent and fleeting world, he turns to those objects which he regards to as outside of the temporality he, as a mortal man experiences: the perpetuating, generationless song of the nightingale and the “cold Pastoral” ageless mar ...