Ode On Grecian Urn and Sailing To Byzantium :: Sailing To Byzantium Essays

Ode On Grecian Urn and Sailing To Byzantium      When you go to bed you sympathise that it is lightless outside, but when you wake yousee light. The light and dark of the day is very dissent, but they are veryclosely related. Dark and light are the fares things from each other, while youcant have light without dark meeting. In the Ode on  a Grecian Urn andSailing to Byzantium we see these differences.      The difference in the Ode on Grecian Urn and Sailing to Byzantium arevery distinctive especially in the stems  of art verses nature in the battlebetween immortality. Sailing to Byzantium has themes such as art verses naturewhile 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 generationsof 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 ofspring and vegetation and animals and life. Yates uses vivified examples such asAn Aged earth is but a patty thing, a tattered coat upon a stick. (9,10) Yatesis describing a scarecrow or what you might call death. He also talks about amaniacal bird in lines thirty and thirty-one. This is something that isnt dyingand will go on forever. These two images life and death help comprehend thecomplexity of these poems.      The images of life and death is also repesented in Keats Ode on a GrecianUrn. What leap-fringd Latin haults about they shap of deities or mortials orboth. (5,6) As you can see through reading these lines life and death are bigaspects in this poem. One the other side this poem is very different fromSailing to Byzantium. In Ode on a Grecian Urn there is just one aspect thatis really representatives  here. This aspect of death is talked about so vivialyin this poem. Keats talks about death all through this poem. Through winningNear the Goal-yet do not greive, she can not save, through  threw has not thebliss.(18,19) When you die you fade away. This bank note is all through this poem.Death is a huge aspect and a way of life.  The vivid way that keats talks about