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Ode on a Grecian Urn
The images on the urn are frozen in time. Presumably, if the urn survives the effects of erosion and decay, those images will remain there forever. Likewise, a poem (such as "Ode on a Grecian Urn")...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
First, there is no way that we can know precisely why Keats wrote the words he did. Given that time travel is not possible and he did not write an essay explaining his intentions, all we can do is...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a compelling poem for many reasons. One of the main reasons, however, is the remarkable shift in tone that can be observed taking place between the beginning...
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John Keats
According to scholar Jonathan Sachs, "in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth century ... [there was] an increasing fascination with Greece and Greek culture." Keats shared in that...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
Romanticism, a literary movement spanning the years 1785 - 1830, emphasized the following: awe of nature, individualism, interest in the common man, imagination, and emotion. The final stanza of...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
One major theme of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is that a beautiful work of art brings comfort and joy to the viewer. In this poem, the narrator gazes at the picture on an ancient Greek urn. It shows a...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
The image that absorbs Keats (or, more precisely, the poem's narrator) on the Grecian urn is a "Cold Pastoral" because it is a picture frozen in time of a pastoral or outdoors scene. It is not...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
The interpretation of the last two lines of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is controversial, primarily because it is unclear whether the urn speaks some or all of the words. Quotation marks would...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats is actually a poem about the Parthenon frieze, which had been brought to England by Lord Elgin and was on display in the British Museum. The central theme of...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
These lines near the end of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" have long perplexed critics. Since Keats doesn't offer us a definition of either beauty or truth, their meaning is elusive, but we can draw out a...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
In the first stanza of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, the speaker refers to the urn as an "unravish'd bride of quietness," a "foster-child of silence and of slow time," and a "Sylvan...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
[Until October 2013, it has formerly been eNotes policy to answer only one question per post.] Keats has chosen a Grecian urn for the subject of his poem for a few reasons. The ancient Greeks were...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
The narrator here is the poet himself (John Keats), not so much conjecturing on the urn’s artist’s intentions, or trying to tell the story illustrated on the urn, as giving the silent figures a...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
In his "Ode on a Grecian Urn," John Keats writes of the spirit that runs through all things. Certinly, in the urn, which represents all art, there is a timelessness that does not exist in the real...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
In the first stanza, the speaker comments on the figures on the urn. Since the figures are frozen images, the bride on the urn is "still" (unmoving) and since she has yet to be ravished, she has...
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John Keats
The use of negatives in the second stanza do not necessarily cancel out the image of "Fair youth." The negatives are used to express the paradoxical quality of the urn: how the images and music on...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," the speaker addresses the urn itself and the images on it. First, the speaker addresses the bride on the urn. She is frozen in time. She has yet to be ravished, so she is...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
The speaker in the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is fascinated and teased by the figures on the urn. All the figures are frozen in time and therefore they exist in an eternal state. But, in being...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
"Sylvan" pertains to woods, the forest, or a pastoral landscape. Keats' urn depicts various people and circumstances: a religious ceremony, two lovers, a pastoral piper, townspeople, and the forest...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
Both of these famous poems take as their main theme the eternal nature of beauty as contrasted with the ephemeral and transitory nature of man's mortality. This is the central conflict that...
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John Keats
What makes the Odes of Keats unique is the way that they focus so much on the difference between the eternal quality of beauty and how it stands so utterly apart from the brief mortality of human...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
One poetic technique that is used in this poem from the outset is metaphor. The speaker compares the urn he is talking about to a series of different images that each point towards the centrality...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
Keats is writing about a Grecian urn which has illustrations all around it. He is trying to imagine himself inside the world represented by the urn and is pretending that the illustrations are...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
A movement that emphasized emotion and intuition and the importance of the individual experience, Romanticism validated strong emotion as an aesthetic source of experience and knowledge. Certainly,...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
As a Hellenist, Keats held a devotion to ancient Greece. Believing in inspiration as the requisite for writing poetry, he found the artifacts of Greece as objects as well as nature for his...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
Rabindranath's Castaway is an indigenus piece that deals with the adolescent psychology with that of a mature one.In course of the story, Nilkanta found a family and also an image of love in shape...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
In the Ode on a grecian urn,the poet is describing the images that he sees in the ode...the speaks the lines...he descibes the everlasting truth of beauty...through this ode he gives a contrast btw...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
The poem attains the peak of poetic creativity while read on the foundation of the philosophy that 'two is one and one is beauty'Two in one, one is beauty............(this is just for you to...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," the speaker is speaking to the urn itself. In the last lines, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," -that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know," the speaker says...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," the urn was likely a product of Keats' mind, based on images of vases, sculptures and paintings. The scenes depicted are a Dionysian celebration, lovers about to...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
Keats was always thinking about life, death, and his place in the pantheon of great poets. Since "Ode on a Grecian Urn," is partly a meditation on the timelessness of art, the poem parallels Keats'...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is a formal lyric poem whose metaphoric tension depends upon the dual nature of the urn: While the beautiful urn itself is a symbol of the static quality of art,...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
This poem celebrates the scenes and stories painted on the Grecian urn. The speaker addresses the urn with several rhetorical questions and then proceeds to draw the conclusion that the subjects...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
In a way, it's hard to be clear about the theme of "Ode to a Grecian Urn" because two of the key lines are still debated. The debate is about the meaning of: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'--that...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
The central message of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is the way in which the Grecian Urn represents an eternal beauty that contrasts to the ephemeral nature of man's existence. This is something of a...
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Guide to Literary Terms
An ode is a form of poetry usually written in lyrical verse. In ancient Greece, odes were usually sung with the accompaniment of a lyre. Odes were typically written and/or sung in praise or...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
i think for most there is personification,metaphor alliteration and assonance
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
Yes, you are pretty much right, especially about the first part of the fourth line. The stress would fall on first syllable of "Beauty," making that dactylic (I think!). Keats must have done that...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats is famous for sensuous quality in his poetry. He is called the mystic of senses. He is a worshiper of beauty and he pursues beauty everywhere. He finds beauty in concrete things not in...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
What was the main theme of wordsworth tintern abbey?
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
"Ode to a Grecian Urn," John Keats's metaphysical contemplation of Nature, Art, and Love finds its tension between the perishable and the eternal. In Stanza V, the speaker abandons his...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
As always with any question that asks you to examine the meaning of a particular text, it is important to look at the line in context so that you are aware of how it relates to the poem as a whole....
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
That Keats does describe a composite urn is certainly plausible as free-style urns of the type Keats appears to describe usually depict only one scene that runs continuously around the...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
It is always important to look at the context of the lines you need to focus on to see what they mean and to try and understand what clues the rest of the poem before and after can give in order to...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
This refeerence to the poem is featured at the beginning of the second stanza, where the speaker comments on the difference between the kind of music that is a product of his own world and the kind...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
The final stanza of "Ode on a Grecian Urn," O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
These three poems by Wordsworth, Housman, and Keats share the thematic idea of life frozen in time. In Wordsworth's poem, he sees a solitary young woman reaping a field of grain and singing as she...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
Generation after shall come to live on this beautiful world. Each generation will have its unique shortcomings and problems. Ageing is a natural phenomenon and all human beings will perish one...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
The treatment of ARTt in both the poems is quite different. In ODE ON A GRECIAN URN, the poet has depicted a frozen moment from the sylvan history of the greek civilization. Remember, the poet...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity. Cold...