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What Do Ode To A Nightingale And Ode To A Grecian Urn Have To Say About Superiority Of Art Over Life.  

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What Do Ode To A Nightingale And Ode To A Grecian Urn Have To Say About Superiority Of Art Over Life An ode is a form of lyric poetry where the poet reveals his personality. He shares his thoughts, feelings and opinions as we see through his eyes. Keats's odes were very majestic and full of imagination. The two poems Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn are very similar in their structure and message. Keats was tired of the mortal world and could only see the negative things in his life and so he looked for an escape. It wasn't only his own pain that depressed him, it was the pain of his brother who was dying and we can see evidence of this in this quote; "The weariness, the fever, the fret. Here, where men sit and hear each other groan. Where palsy shakes a few...

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