Analysis Of Ode To A Grecian Urn By John Keats

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When an individual having a long, stress full day with a million ideas going on in their head; dealing with bills, work and relationship but in one single moment by looking outside the window and seeing a beautiful butterfly flying down on a sunflower can restored the true beauty in nature, making the mind into a state free mood. During the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries was when many country revolted against the classical idea of enlightenment into the sensible and emotional thinking of Romanticism. The poems “Ode to a Grecian Urn” by John Keats and “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept.3, 1802.” By William Wordsworth; are two works that reflect the influence of nature of emotion, beauty and imagination.

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The quietness of the morning dawn where the citizen are sleeping enhance the feeling of freedom by having our unconscious to slow down it gives us a great portion of tranquility. In the poem he describes the raw natural beauty of the sun, “All bright and glittering /Never did sun more beautifully steep” (8-9). He notice the illuminating sunlight is fusion over the city to wake up London, he makes this poem restored human being feelings of romantics creativity of the presence of God. William Wordsworth only sees the city beauty in the morning time, which is different than what he is use to in the country side. The reason it’s only pretty in the morning because the people make it dirty, he designates the word, “smokeless air” (8). The city skies always have smog due to chimneys coals or machines, which causes the city to not show the natural beauty. Nature will always win but the power of people can make the city ugly; to wake up in the morning and feel the emotional of a moment of pure beauty of London

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