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   One of the main themes is time.  Time has been frozen in the scenes on the urn; however, the narrator ponders how the lovers will never actually kiss, for example, so they won't ever be able to realize thier love, etc.  Another main theme is one of truth and beauty, but not in tne normal sense.  The narrator seems to imply that:

   ..."truth is beauty, beauty truth" only applies in the place where all activity is stuck in one moment. We can certainly see the beauty: the lovers are in love, the music of the pipe is sweet, the trees are always full, and the people attending the sacrifice have the joy of anticipation. But where is the truth in all of this? It is a limited truth. (Enotes)

    

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   Posted by kwoo1213 on Wednesday April 2, 2008 at 7:38 PM