“Ode to a Nightingale,” and “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
No writing is truly complete without the use of figurative language; one element of this language is the symbol. In “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner; “Ode to a Nightingale,” and “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” by John Keats the authors use symbol to represent the theme of death. “A Rose for Emily” is Faulkner’s Gothic and most famous short story, Emily’s father died. Miss Emily realizes that everything she has is gone and in a rather uncanny way she reasons that if she could keep her father alive by pretending he is not dead, she could keep ...
