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Immortality: A Source of Torment or Satisfaction
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The two poems, John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Tithonus”, both deal with the theme of immortality in the moral world of humans. In one respect, the two poems are similar, because in both, immortality is considered impossible in real life; but on the other hand, these poems also differ from one another concerning their different approach towards the theme of immortality.
In Tennyson’s poem, immortality of body or soul is disgusted, while in Keats’s poem immortality of art for preserving human beauty and pure feelings is highly praised. In “Tithonus”, the goddess of dawn grants a Trojan prince immortality that she loves, because he himself asked for it. Tithonus will never die, but still he is not h
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