... physical element of the artwork itself and therefore cannot be lost as time passes. In the fourth stanza the narrator is describing a deserted town where "thy streets for evermore Will silent be" and "Why thou art desolate, can e"er return" ([Ode] 4.38-40). Here there is a sense of emptiness and loneliness expressed through the narrator. The word "sacrifice" ([Ode] 4.31) is ... also a word that really strikes the theme of death in that at the end of any sacrifice is death. Other words chosen are "emptied", "soul", "silent", "desolate" which all lead to an understanding or implication of...

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... hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearièd, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still ... by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul, to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. O Attic shape! fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens ... overwrou...

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• Grade Level: High School

... is compared to utter sadness and here we can see the theme of melancholy. The gloominess is continued in the following two lines where Ghalib speaks of a spring cloud thinning after a rain, and how the cloud died in its own weeping. The reader is then asked if they would question the wind's shaping and ... to watch mildew grow on a mirror in the spring. Up to this point in the poem, it seems as if the author is trying to convey the message that change is bad and brings about sadness ... is perceived as something as greater than life. Keats then talks about some trees and says that thei...

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• Grade Level: High School