Ode to Mortality

Ode to mortality
The common theme in the two poems "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, and "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost, is the idea of mortality. Frost uses the changing seasons to show the shortness of life. Keats uses the opposite effect. He uses a Grecian urn to show how terrible it would be to be immortal like the figures on the urn.
Robert Frost uses several images to show the shortness of life in the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay". He uses colors, time, and nature. "Nature's first green is gold, [Her] hardest hue to hold" (Frost 800). Gold reminds people of being rich, or of having some kind of worth, and Frost uses the gold in time and nature to show how short and precious life is.
John Keats also relays his thoughts of life in his poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn". He uses the d...