Consider Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and Bright Star. Discuss the presentation of the mortal and immortal in these poems. In all three of these poems the ideals of mortality and immortality are compared and contrasted. As a human being Keats posses all the traits of humanity namely that which we call the human condition. He is subject to change, to time, and is susceptible to those desires and impulses which …showed first 75 words of 1264 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1264 total…the last verse of …Grecian Urn: ‘Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe than ours’. However, we get the sense in Bright Star… that despite this Keats is prepared to live ‘in a sweet unrest’ like those figures on the urn, along side his true love. It is possible for him to achieve the status of the Nightingale and although this being temporary is not ideal, he would rather this than not at all.