What Does Ode On A Grecian Urn Mean

At one point in this first semester of English 11, we studied poems written by African American slaves and I found a poem that I genuinely enjoy by Phillis Wheatley called Ode to Neptune. The poem is, at first glance, about her master’s wife Susanna’s crossing of the Atlantic to Britain. However, the underlying theme that I detected is apropos to Phillis’s own life experiences.

The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.

Death of a whale is a modern sonnet influenced by shakespearian sonnets due to the line length and ending rhyming couplet. Blight shares with us his observation of how people will feel great

Impressions/Connections “‘with your rugged, strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis’” (5) This is an allusion to Adonis, a handsome, young man from Greek mythology. “‘Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus’” (5) An allusion to Narcissus from Greek mythology. He was a handsome man who could only focus on his own beauty and nothing else.

The imminence of death can prove to be a more of a deterring factor from fulfillment than death itself. In the poems “When I Have Fears” by John Keats and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Longfellow, both poets reflect on their fear of death, however, Keats regrets that he may not fulfill his goals before death, while longfellow regrets that he did not fulfill his goals in the past. In this contrast between past and future, Longfellow looks back on all that he missed while living a comfortable youth and Keats is fearful that he may not experience all the world has to offer yet is hopeful that he will have a chance.

Readers of Keats’s story begin to realize that the fear of a young death is a demon that haunts us all. This was Keats’s goal as a romantic writer: to connect with the reader, to portray his ideas in the form of art, and to make the reader see from his point of view. With his use of colorful figurative language, such as repetition, imagery, and personification, Keats accomplishes his goal. The reason that Keats is so successful in painting a clear picture is because he “uses his imagination to write” (King). By writing his poem in the form of a “Shakespearean sonnet consisting of three quatrains” (King), Keats, like any great artist, clearly states the point he is trying to make. Apprehension of a young demise is a plague that haunts us all. In “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to be,” Keats takes our hands and reassures us that we are not

There are many openions on “The Aeneid” but mine is of a good light. “The Aeneid” was a wonderful book with many themes motifs and symbols. The auther of “the Aeneid” was Publius Vergilius Maro also known as Virgil. Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's best poets. His Aeneid is thought of as the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its making to present day.

The poem “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant has the message that when one dies they return to nature and that death is not something to be scared about so one shouldn’t let the fear stop one from living. The first writing strategy Bryant uses to develop his central message is imagery. Bryant uses imagery when describing the tomb in lines 37-42, “The hills rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun…rivers that move in majesty, and the complaining brooks that make the meadows green…”. Using this imagery it says that even though all these people are dead they are all together in undisturbed nature. Bryant also uses imagery in lines 22-26, “Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim thy growth, to be resolved the earth again…to mix forever with the elements”.

The Greeks used “arête” to express the concepts of supremacy and masculinity. A self-respecting Greek would never show a side of themselves in which they were less than perfect because arête taught them that that was what was most important. In both Homer’s The Iliad and Pindar’s Olympian Ode 1, a considerable amount of emphasis of placed on those who prove that they can excel at what they do.

The ancient Olympic Games date back to the year 776 B.C. and included only free male citizens of Greece who competed in games to determine the best athlete in Greece. Today, the Olympic Games consist of men and women from all countries who compete to see who the best athlete at a given sport is. These new sports and competitions operated under different rules and required regulations to make sure the game was fair. Just like today, the first Olympic Games required some of the biggest sports arenas and facilities ever. And just like today, Olympic winners often became legends. The first Olympic Games were

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Lord Byron’s “Darkness” both show the contrast between movement and stillness. The authors use this contrast to convey the central idea that one needs to let things go in order to truly live. Both poems tell a story of a ship that gets stuck, one ship is able to continue moving and one ship is left to rot. This is representative of when people are unable to move on and their entire being revolves around what they can’t get over. Letting go is crucial to moving on and staying alive.

Ode Dad By Nathen Rodriguez Dad is the best person in the world My dad can be as pure as gold He'll love me when I'm old And I'll love him even if my soul is sold Together we pray His spirit is as bright as day "I love you" he'll say

The presentation of social class can contrast very highly and remain similar in many forms of drama. Oscar Wilde’s representation of social class in The Importance of Being Earnest draws an interesting comparison with Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 into a middle-class household in Dublin, Ireland, and later attended Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. At Oxford, he was influenced by his middle-class professors, John Ruskin and Walter Pater: Ruskin and Pater’s views on art were conflicting, as Ruskin believed, being a Pre-Raphaelite art critic, that art should reflect social and political issues, and that it was the artist’s duty to be “truthful to nature”.

“The Bard. A Pindaric Ode” by Thomas Gray is a poem which has been carefully constructed to examine the idea of nationhood. Gray sought to explore the idea that there had been an ancient British state within the poem’s narrative, and the importance of Wales in that ancient nation. He uses several techniques to try and create a sense of shared history through the poem, despite it being entirely fictional.

Imagery is seen all throughout the poem, but can be seen specifically when Keats is referencing death. Through the uses of the word “hemlock” which is a poison made of herbs, and “Lethe” which is, in Greek mythology, “a river in Hades (the underworld). Souls about to be reincarnated drank from it to forget their past lives.” (Melani) These words, along with others, paint a distinct picture of death and forms a very dark image of Keats’ inner thoughts. In the 2nd Stanza, Keats describes the real world with words such as “Flora” which is the “goddess of flowers and fertility.” (Melani) and Hippocrene which is, in Greek mythology, a “spring sacred to the Muses, located on Mt.Helicon. Drinking its waters inspired poets.” (Melani) Through the uses of these words, readers can infer that Keats seems to think that life, when enjoyed, is blissful and pure. Imagery is used