"Ode on a Grecian Urn" vs "The Wasteland"

While "The Waste Land" depicts images of sterility and desolate land, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is one of immortality and joy. The author speaks of the urn as a representation of timelessness, because time is the cause for all decay and the images on the urn never changes, while he is more like The Wasteland. He will decay eventually and he wishes he could be the urn. Ode on a Grecian Urn is a …

…in The Wasteland. The urn is just a dream of timelessness that can never be real. It is an imaginary world that many, including the author would like to live in but it is impossible. While the world of the urn may seem perfect, one may forget that it too has its disadvantages. The people on the urn are frozen; they will never be able to experience the things that make the worth of life.