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"Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird No hungry generations tread thee down"
But at the end of the poem, he suddenly comes back to the actual world of worries and difficulties.
brief stay in the world of imagination. That is why KEATS comes back to the real world, saying that Urn does not have the organism of life and the "marble figures" on the Urn are "cold". "Ode on Melancholy" deals with the strange dilemmas of human life, in KEATS' peculiar style.
"Ay in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her Sovran shrine."
These are imagined moments of heightens consciousness of KEATS. It means that man must enjoy the pleasures of life to their full intensity because these pleasures cant be over at any moment, but one should prepare oneself for the gloomy period of one's life well in advance.
"Where are the songs of spring? Ay where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too."
By observing all these poems it seems that KEATS is looking for some experience or image, which will suspend the process of age, time, decay and weariness; pain and loss and carry him through the act of poetic imagination into a vision which combines intense joy with stability and peace. But at last the poet is called from contemplation of his central image to recognize the fact of time and transience and realize that the earlier image is incomplete.