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Many poems from the romantic period focus on feelings, nature, and the way the human mind works. In the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” John Keats focuses on all of those things. This poem is a good example of the ideas and works of the writers of the romantic period. In the first stanza of “Ode to a Grecian Urn”, Keats is talking to the urn. He talks about how the urn is silent …

…cow and the townspeople to a sacrifice. They are going to sacrifice the cow all dressed in flowers. All the people are leaving the town and will never be able to return again. It will be deserted forever. In the fifth and final stanza Keats is once again talking about the urn. Keats explains that the urn will last forever and when this generation is gone, the urn will still be here in the present.