... 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 overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old ... is an urn that was crafted in ancient Attica. The urn is a beautiful one, poet says, adorned with "brede" (braiding, embroidery) depicting marble men and women enacting a scene in the tangle of forest tree branches and weeds. As people look upon the scene, they ponder it-as they woul...

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... ;instant fires." This is not literal fire on her skin, but it's rather used to describe how the feeling of lustful desire is like heat. In line 26, "marble vault" is being used as a euphemism to describe the death of his beautiful lady and her grave; however, he does this in a decent and indirect manner. In line 31 ... ," the grave's a fine and private place," he uses euphemism to describe privacy and loneliness of the marble vault, which he mentioned earlier in line 26. In line 44, "iron gates of life" is a metaphor used to describe all the obstructions and circumstances beyond his contr...

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... empty town, the paradox is there. In the fifth and last scene-stanza of the play-poem, the metanarrator addresses the narrator directly: O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; With the apostrophe of the first line, the audience are taken back to the " Sylvan historian", for the urn ... beyond time, outside time, and for this reason bewilders our time-ridden minds: it teases us." Keats realizes that this " Cold Pastoral" is to outlive all coming generations, with its marble men safe from death, unlike Ada...

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... T.S. Eliot also had in common the application of similes. A simile can be recognized in T.S Eliot's poem The Waste Land: *** The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, *** *** (ll. 77-78) (DeRoche, 342) The appliance of the simile can also be noted in Robert Lowell's poem For the Union Dead: Once my nose crawled like a snail on the ... ...

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... at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near; and yonder all before us lie deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, nor, in they marble vault, shall sound my echoing song; then worms shall try ." All these poems did not have as much similarities as they had in differences. Since they are written by two ... ...

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... my back I always hear Time's wingëd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in my marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine ... ...

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... you to challenge reality and confront issues possibly not dealt with in everyday life. The themes of immortality and morality can be seen throughout "Ode on a Grecian Urn". The unchanging marble of the urn can be considered as immortal just as the tale displayed on the urn. However positive the poem may seem about eternity and immortality, there are also negative ... ...

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