Romanticism is a term used for a revolutionary artistic/intellectual movement originating in Europe, spanning primarily from the 18th to the late 19th centuries. However, contrary to popular belief, the term romance is not always just about love and business. Two of the predominant themes in the Romantic period were the themes of art and nature. Regarding these themes, we have often also reflected on what nature and art are, how they can be interpreted and what works of art can symbolize. During the Romantic movement, poets such as John Keats attempted to interpret the theme of nature and show how art can actually captivate time. By analyzing Keats's poems “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” we will be able to better understand how this poet speaks about nature and seek a deeper understanding of how art can maintain permanence as opposed to to the transience of the real world. In the poem "Ode to a Nightingale", by Keats, Keats mainly talks about the ideas of life and death. Keats not only talks about these ideas, but comes to the realization that everything must have an end, including his own life. He wants to escape the sufferings of life, such as gray hair, pain and, ultimately, even death. However, Keats understands that he cannot do this and first thinks that alcohol is an escape, but then gets rid of the idea because it is only a momentary fixation of the problem. Interestingly, for his sake, Keats turns to the song of the nightingale, which he believes is a kind of permanent solution to his problem. The nightingale's song therefore symbolizes imagination and a type of ecstasy that Keats is experiencing. In fact, this immortal voice and ecstasy are the exact opposite... the center of the card... vitality rather than "Ode on a Grecian Urn", where the tone is more joyful. Although the overall tone is very melancholy in the poem “Ode to Nightingale”, on the other hand, in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, Keats embraces the beauty of the Urn and uses the repetition of the word “Happy” (line 21) to demonstrate his excitement. Overall, both poems, "Ode to Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" represent Keats's attempts to ease his pain in life and escape the "natural" world. Although Keats finds permanence and perfectionism in the idealistic drawings of works of art such as those illustrated on a Greek urn, or in the mellifluous melody of the nightingale, Keats ultimately prefers the transience of human life because of the warmth that reality possesses. Furthermore, as Keats once stated, "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all you know on earth and all you need to know"..’”