... the urn, described in the fourth stanza, depicts a procession of priests and villagers on their way to make a sacrifice. To this the speaker asks, "What little town by river or sea shore, / / Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?" (35-37) By addressing the town from which the priests and villagers came, something that is not actually physically pictured anywhere; the speaker reaches his deepest analysis of the ... living in a cruel and unforgiving world. Keats continues with this idea of reality in his other poem. In "Ode to a Nightingale" Keats comments further on the sorrow and pain...

• Word Count: 1754
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School