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Sir Gawain The Green Knight

e Bold Lover, the trees of spring, and the season spring, can ever leave their endless deeds. Immortality of the town is shown. “What little town by river or seashore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is empitied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets forevermore Will be silent be…” (lines 35 – 39).The town will never see people inhibiting it, bringing loneliness and immorality throughout the town. These are the advantages mortality give to the living. The themes of immortality and morality can be seen throughout “Ode of a Grecian Urn.” The unchanging marble of the urn can be considered immortal just as the tale displayed on the urn. The fact that the tale on the urn can never change shows the disadvantage of being immortal and the reason why morality can be better. The poem begins by probing the reader with a series of questions presented by the speaking subject. Keats then permits the urn to speak without speaking , to “express a flowery tale more sweetly than rhyme.” Keats has trouble getting outside of the answers he continually struggle with during his writing career. He presents a series of questions he expects the urn, or the representative of the urn to answer. Scott says, “the ode does not begin with the speakers attempt to compete with the urn, but with a homage to its strange genealogy and its paradoxical powers of eloquence” (Scott 135). Scott also says, Keats immediately becomes impatient with the urn’s silence and seeks to impose his own dialogue on the existing surface of the urn. Andrew Bennett recognizes Keat’s desire to enter the dialogue saying, “Keats always seems about to burst into narrative” (Bennett 130). He appears from the beginning to question the urn, then later adds his answers. Keats now haunts the reader at the end o...

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