John Keats use of symbols in his writings
John Keats use of symbolism to portray his themes in his writings is phenomenal. In the Odes on a Grecian Urn the music and the musician are symbols that represent the beauty of love. The audience can not literally conceive the music but can imagine the music in their minds through the description of the musician playing the pipe. In the Ode to a Nightngale’ Keats use of birds chirping is symbolic of the immortality of art and the mortality of human beings (Blades, 2002; Nagar &Prasad, 2005). The human soul can do less but only imagine of the beauty of ...
