... / She cannot fade" (17-19). The other side of 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 ... the pain with alcohol, "that [he] might drink, and leave the world unseen" (19). He then speaks to the nightingale. He says that it is, "[singing] of summer in full-throated ease," (10) and that he wants to, " forget / What [the nightingale] among the leaves hast never known," (21-2...

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... suffering of human life. In the Ode to a Nightingale the speaker, which we could assume to be Keats himself, feels heartache as a result of listening to a nightingale singing its songs of summer. We could assume that in this green and beautiful country environment the speaker seems to feel heartache as a reaction to the intense happiness he felt when listening to the bird and its blissful ignorance or ... maybe it was just jealousy but it doesn't appear to be the latter. With this reaction the ... follow the nightingale and it's song. Suddenly, surrounded by the bird's song, the speake...

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... outer beauty as Sonnet 18. Sonnet 18 is a poem that glorifies the subject and his or her beauty. Shakespeare uses metaphors to describe his lover. He uses the season of summer as a basis of comparison to the person he is writing about. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate". Shakespeare states that this person is even more beautiful than ... a summer day. They are also gentler than a harsh sun, which shines brightly and causes the sun to beat too hotly and raise the temperature ... too high. He refers to the sun with another metaphor, "the e...

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... outer beauty as Sonnet 18. Sonnet 18 is a poem that glorifies the subject and his or her beauty. Shakespeare uses metaphors to describe his lover. He uses the season of summer as a basis of comparison to the person he is writing about. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate". Shakespeare states that this person is even more beautiful than ... a summer day. They are also gentler than a harsh sun, which shines brightly and causes the sun to beat too hotly and raise the temperature ... too high. He refers to the sun with another metaphor, "the e...

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... can automatically be assumed that this poem is dealing with death and will probably not contain much happiness. The poem begins with what appears to be a couple walking along during a nice summer day, and there they saw the object that was the dead animal that was laying belly up on the side of the road with ... it. Baudelaire then states his purpose in describing the dead corpse when he says "And even you will come to this foul shame". This brings about the realization that we are all to die, and nothing can be done to prevent it. Death is a sad thing and the reader is reminded that on...

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... inspiration. It is nature's splendour and our relationship with it that is the main theme in both the poems I am to explore, Keats's Ode to a Nightingale and Wordsworth's Lines. Ode to a Nightingale sees the speaker observing a nightingale sing in his garden, the presence of nature is immediately apparent by the presence ... states that he has "sunk" toward the mythical river of death "Lethe", and sits in admiration and jealousy at the nightingale's ability to celebrate the presence of summer with a song sang with "full-throated ease". Wine is desired by the speaker in the second stanza...

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... and that Keats has a preoccupation with the impossibility of possessing reality. This theme runs directly through the core of his Odes of 1819. Ode to a Nightingale expresses Keats's almost unbearable happiness induced by its song. The poetry itself is a catalyst for Keats's obvious intentions between two opposing escapisms ... transitory nature of human life; and by the end of stanza six recognises that the Nightingale would not cease to sing if he were to die "Still wouldst thou sing, an I have ears in vain- To thy high requiem become a sod." By this time, Keats is immortalising the bi...

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... Wordsworth, Shelly, and Keats. The Romantic poets are recognized for the love of nature. They all have expressed their love of nature in relationship to some aspect of life. They reflect on nature as something so immense and beautiful as well as its immutability. Three romantic poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and ... and the feelings he has upon his return. He discusses how the memory of the banks has helped his deal with the city and what he owes to those memories. In the second part he questions his memories because of age, he is not sure the feeling is the same. The same feeling he ... ...

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... of Industrialization on Europe's society, the development of scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was to eventually escalate into World War One, called into question the existence of God and the rationality of Mankind. Modernism was a part of [this] disturbed ... the effect of the war on the soldiers would be so adverse that they will cease to fit in to normal' society after the war has ended, and also that the soldiers seemed doomed to die and will never see their homes again. The latter idea is underlined in the last...

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