Three great examples of this are Baudelaire's "A Carrion", Keats" "Ode on a Grecian Urn", and Ghalib's V and XII Ghazals. ... Another great poem that speaks of sadness is John Keats" "Ode to a Grecian Urn." ... There is a piper playing on his pipe, and even though he cannot hear the music that is produced from the pipe, he can imagine the sweetness of the melody. If the music was heard, it would only please him until the piper stopped playing, but in looking at the painting of the piper playing, he can take pleasure in it every time that he looks at it. ... From Baudelaire's ...

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The succession of sound in Stanza four finally breaks into the feeling of uneasiness in the poem with a similar use of assonance- the play of s' sounds such as the sudden, successive flights of bullets [which] streak the silence'. ... Keats's Ode To A Nightingale', which begins with the lines: my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, ( Purkis 117) is echoed in the fir...

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