Ode On Grecian Urn and Sailing To Byzantium

Ode On Grecian Urn and Sailing To Byzantium

When you go to bed you see that it is dark outside, but when you wake you

see light. The light and dark of the day is very dissent, but they are very

closely related. Dark and light are the fares things from each other, while you

can't have light without dark meeting. In the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and

"Sailing to Byzantium" we see these differences.

The difference in the "Ode on Grecian Urn" and " Sailing to Byzantium" are

very distinctive especially in the themes of art verses nature in the battle

between immortality. "Sailing to Byzantium" has themes such as art verses nature

while "Ode on a Grecian Urn" relies mainly on the battle of immortality in life.

This can also be said about "Sailing to Byzantium."

We will start with "Sailing to Byzantium to show the strive for immortality.

This theme of immortality as I go thoughtout this poem: "That is no country for

old men. The young in one other arms, bids in the tree. Those dying generations

of their song." (1,2,3) Imortality hit you in the face start off these lines. It

talks about old becoming young and birds and trees. This makes you think of

spring and vegetation and animals and life. Yates uses vivified examples such as

"An Aged Man is but a patty thing, a tattered coat upon a stick." (9,10) Yates

is describing a scarecrow or what you might call death. He also talks about a

maniacal bird in lines thirty and thirty-one. This is something that isn't dying

and will go on forever. These two images life and death help insure the

complexity of these poems.

The images of life and death is also repesented in Keats "Ode on a Grecian

Urn." "What leap-fringd Latin haults about they shap of deities or mortials or

both." (5,6) As you can see through reading these lines life and death are big

aspects in this poem. One the other side this poem is very different from

Sailing to Byzantium." In "Ode on a Grecian Urn" there is just one aspect that

is really representatives here. This aspect of death is talked about so vivialy

in this poem. Keats talks about death all through this poem. "Through winning

Near the Goal-yet do not greive, she can not save, through threw has not the

bliss."(18,19) When you die you fade away. This tone is all through this poem.

Death is a huge aspect and a way of life. The vivid way that keats talks about