an ordinary human would have.
             Although death can be thought of as the prevalent theme throughout the poem, attached to that is also Keats' worries about his art-his poetry-wasting away. It is a clear comparison to look at the Marbles, which he calls "wonders" and "Grecian grandeur," and compare them to Keats' writing. The Marbles have wasted away to "a shadow of a magnitude," and Keats as a mortal will die and will leave only his art as "a shadow of a magnitude." This echoes the themes of another Keats poem When I Have Fears, which is concerned with death and with the work of an author not living on either. If the Elgin Marbles did not last, why should Keats think that his poetry would last either? If he looks at himself as having "grandeur" because of his art, then his is a decaying "grandeur" as well. So not only is he battling with his own "mortality," but also with the mortality of all art. This might be what Keats refers to as "an indescribable feud" in hi
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