As Nina is working on an analytical essay comparing three poems' view on mortality, during our first two sessions, we completed an analysis on Keat's "Ode to a Nightingale." We focused on the poetic devices of imagery, metaphor, and symbolism and then extracted the poet's tone and attitude toward his own mortality. We discussed how Keats finds solace and acceptance in art and poetry that will survive his mortality. By contrast, we examined Donne who treats death with defiance and Bryant who welcomes death as a return to Nature. From there, I provided instruction on how to compose a thesis that synthesizes all three sources and how to structure the analysis. During our next session, we practiced scansion or identifying meter within a line of Wordsworth's poetry and further discussed the relationship between the poem's structure and meaning . We then began a study of Keat's "Ode to a Grecian Urn." After reviewing the characteristics of an ode, I provided instruction and introduction as this poem is not readily accessible to students. We then discussed each image on the urn as an artistic yet immortal representation of an aspect of life that dissipates but remains frozen in time or immortal through art.