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        <title><![CDATA[The word "happy" is foregrounded in the third stanza of Keats' "Ode on a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The word "happy" is foregrounded in the third stanza of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by being repeated six times. However, the word 'happy' has been used to convey the following different meanings:

1.    Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu;

In this context, 'happy' means 'fortunate.' Unlike in real life when the trees shed their leaves in autumn, the branches of the trees on the marble urn...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[This idea from John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is about time. The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This idea from John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is about time. The characters are happy because this moment of joy will never be taken away from them - they are in a time-warp picture placed on the urn by the artist. So the celebratory procession will go on forever, the music will never stop even though we won't be there any more to hear it (those 'melodies' unheard are sweeter) the musicians won't get old and feeble and clumsy, the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How has Keats foregrounded "happy" in the third stanza of his "Ode on a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How has Keats foregrounded "happy" in the third stanza of his "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:14:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "story" in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is pretty basic as it hardly...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The "story" in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is pretty basic as it hardly exists at all as the "characters" are pictures on an ancient Greek vase. So, really, if there is any story it is about the poet looking at the urn, thinking about it and the ideas it inspires and then writing these down. Of course, the picture represents a story. That story seems to contain two sweethearts. The male character appears to be interested in the female character and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:30:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this poem, the narrator has found an old urn (like a vase) that was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this poem, the narrator has found an old urn (like a vase) that was made long ago by some Greek person.  The urn is decorated with two scenes -- one of lovers listening to musicians under some trees and one of a priest leading a heifer to be sacrificed on an altar.
So the narrator is looking at this urn and contemplating what it means.
First he thinks it would be great to be the lovers or the musicians because they never die.  Their love...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:18:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the story of the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn?"]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the story of the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn?"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:51:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ah, one of my favorite controversial subjects to discuss about one of my...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ah, one of my favorite controversial subjects to discuss about one of my very favorite poems EVER!
The contrast Keats creates between art and life in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is precisely this:  that art is better than life (hence the title of the poem).  In fact, Keats proves this when he says, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter."  Why is art better than life?  Art, as in the form of the urn, can capture life at its...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:11:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Keats's poem is all about a Greek urn, about the pictures of life as...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Keats's poem is all about a Greek urn, about the pictures of life as engraved on the marble surface of the ancient work of plastic art. The urn is called a "sylvan historian" which bears various images of the chronicle of life:some maidens being madly pursued by their lovers, the piper playing on his instrument to produce "unheard melodies," the youthful singer singing beneath the trees--the song never ending and the trees in evergreen...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:02:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On the urn, the immortality &amp; the beauty have been captured by the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On the urn, the immortality &amp; the beauty have been captured by the artist, whereas, contradictorily, life is ruthless, humans are immortal, bound to face death &amp; disease. For an artist, truth is what the piece of art bears. An artist creates his own axiom, his own reality. On the urn, all that is captured is beautiful and good, and, for the artist, all that matters, all that is true is the seeming goodness, beauty &amp; immortality,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:41:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the contrast between art and life in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the contrast between art and life in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:14:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is indeed a paradoxical vision of art that emerges from Keats's Ode...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is indeed a paradoxical vision of art that emerges from Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn. The paradox is a still older Keatsian one where the only choice given to man is between static eternity and dynamic mortality. The Urn, representing the virtuosity of plastic art is something that has arrested motion into a stasis that is perpetual. The sacrificial journey of faith or the sweet pursuit of a beloved kiss have all stopped on the verge. While...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:46:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To understand the metaphor one must find the tension in John Keats's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To understand the metaphor one must find the tension in John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn." This tension is between the aesthetic ideal and reality.  The images on the urn, that of maidens and fair youths, will forever be beautiful and "For ever wilt thou love," but, as in reality, they will never have the physical pleasure of the culmination of their love.
Also on the urn is the depiction of "pipes and timbrels" that play in "wild ecstasy,"...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:02:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can I have a summary of the metaphors in the poem "Ode on a Grecian...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can I have a summary of the metaphors in the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:46:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[

"His soul shall taste the sadness of her might,
 
 And be among her...]]></title>
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"His soul shall taste the sadness of her might,
 
 And be among her cloudy trophies hung."

That's a great part of this poem by Keats.  The poem is really broken up into three parts (or stanzas, if it pleases you.)  In the first, the poet explains what not to do when you are feeling unhappy:


"NO, no! go not to Lethe, neither twist
 
 Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;
 
Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kist
 
 By...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:45:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Keats's poem "Ode on Melancholy', why are the trophies "cloudy"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Keats's poem "Ode on Melancholy', why are the trophies "cloudy"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:24:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On the surface, this poem seems to be about the nature of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On the surface, this poem seems to be about the nature of art.   Keats says profound things about the nature of the plastic, visual arts, and their status of being outside of time.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard      Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,      Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: (lines 11-14)

How strange that seems!  To not enjoy the actual...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:52:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Detailed study of "Ode on a Grecian Urn".]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Detailed study of "Ode on a Grecian Urn".]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The poem opens with three consecutive metaphors: the implied, rather...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The poem opens with three consecutive metaphors: the implied, rather than directly stated, comparisons between the urn the speaker is viewing and, respectively, a “bride of quietness,” a “foster-child of silence and slow time,” and a “Sylvan historian.” Of these, the last is perhaps easiest for the reader to immediately comprehend. Ancient Grecian urns were commonly illustrated with scenes or subjects that varied depending on the...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[give me detail explanation of this ode]]></description>
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