Compare and Contrast Keat's Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn and To Autumn.

... Compare and Contrast Keat's Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn and To Autumn The first two poems Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn are very similar in their structure and message. Keat's is tired of the mortal world and can only see the negative things in his life and so he looks for an escape. It is not only his own pain that depresses him, it is the fact that humans also feel the pain of others and a heavy influence in this poem was that he wrote it not long after the death of his brother. Which is most likely what inspired the following quotation:- "The weariness, the fever, the fret. Here, where men sit and hear each other groan. Where palsy shakes a few last grey hairs." Keat's feels this is the curse of intelligence. Having a big brain allows us to see

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