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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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        <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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        <title><![CDATA[the contrast between art and life in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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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        <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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        <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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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 02:50:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[give me detail explanation of this ode]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[give me detail explanation of this ode]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:01:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This question has been previously asked and answered. Please see the...]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:44:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[E-notes has an entire guide to your selected poem, 'Ode on a Grecian...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[E-notes has an entire guide to your selected poem, 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' by John Keats. I recommend reviewing the Theme and Context sections of the guide as well as the summary.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 23:00:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I am in need of summary of "Ode on a Grecian Urn".
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        <link>http://www.enotes.com/ode-grecian/q-and-a/am-need-summary-ode-gracian-urn-105471</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I am in need of summary of "Ode on a Grecian Urn".
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 21:17:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ode on a Grecian Urn" consists of five stanzas that present a scene,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ode on a Grecian Urn" consists of five stanzas that present a scene, describe and comment on what it shows, and offer a general truth that the scene teaches a person analyzing the scene. Each stanza has ten lines written in iambic pentameter, a pattern of rhythm (meter) that assigns ten syllables to each line. The first syllable is unaccented, the second accented, the third unaccented, the fourth accented, and so on. Note, for example, the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Keats' opinion of art is paradoxical and multi-layered.
There are many...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Keats' opinion of art is paradoxical and multi-layered.
There are many levels to art: the art piece itself, the depiction on the art piece, and the viewer.  Keats seems to be saying that the urn is affected by time differenlty than the viewers: whereas the urn ages slowly (its carved lines fade), the viewers age in real time (grow old).  Obviously, the urn has and will outlive most of its viewers.  It is, in a way, frozen in time....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:53:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What can you infer about Keats's opinion of art?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What can you infer about Keats's opinion of art?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:54:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" written in May 1819, and published...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" written in May 1819, and published in January 1820 is made up of five stanzas, each with ten lines. The poet-narrator reflects upon the images of the figures  depicted on a Grecian urn to whom he addresses his discourse.
In the first stanza the poet-narrator addresses the urn from the 'outside' and thus he is able to speak to the urn and the readers directly:
"Thou still unravished bride of quietness!...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:08:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can I have a detailed explanation of the first three stanzas in the poem...]]></title>
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