Both John Keats’ poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and Dr. Maya Angelou’s poem, “His Day is Done” convey the concept that wisdom may dwell from unusual places, such as from the Grecian Urn’s advice or Nelson Mandela’s quest for equality. Keats and Angelou both utilize asyndeton (especially when Keats states, “Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave, thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare,” and when Angelou writes, “In the Alamo, in San Antonio, Texas, on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, in Chicago’s Loop, in New Orleans Mardi Gras, in New York City’s Times Square”), personification (specifically when Angelou writes, “the news came on the wings of a wind,” as well as when Keats states, “Thou foster-child of silence and slow