Ode on a Grecian urn
John Keats
About the John Keats:
In 1819, John Keats composed six odes, which are among his most famous and well-regarded poems. Keats wrote the first five poems, "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "Ode to Psyche" in quick succession during the spring, and he composed "To Autumn" in September. While the exact order in which Keats composed the poems is unknown, some critics contend that they form a thematic whole if arranged in sequence. As a whole, the odes represent Keats's attempt to create a new type of short lyrical poem, which influenced later generations.
Summery of the poem:
In the first stanza, the stanza the speaker stands before an ancient Grecian urn and addresses it. He is preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time it is the "still unravished bride of quietness", the "foster child of silence and slow time". He also describes the urn as a "historian' that can tell a story. He wonders about the figures on the side of the urn and asks what legend that depict and form where they come. He looks at a picture that seems to depict a group of men pursuing a group of woman and wonders what their story could be." what mad pursuit? what struggle to escape? what pipes and and timbrels? what wild ecstasy?"
In the second stanza the speaker looks at another picture on the urn, this time of a you young man playing a pipe, lying with his lover beneath a glade of tress. The speaker says that the piper's " unheard" melodies are sweeter than mortal melodies because they are unaffected by time. He tells they youth that through he can never kiss his lover because he is frozen in time , he should not grieve because her beauty will never saved their laves his songs will be 'for ever new' and happy that the love of the boy and the girl will last forever, unlike mortal love, which lapses in to "breathing human passion and eventually vanishes leaving behind only a "burning forehead, and a parching tongue".
In the forth stanza , the speaker examines another picture on the urn this one of a group of villagers leading a heifer to be scarified. He wonders where they are going and from where they have come. He imagines their little town, empty of all its citizens and tells it that its streets will " for evermore" be silent, for those who have left it frozen on the urn, will never return.
In the final stanza, the speaker again addresses the urn itself , saying that it like eternity, both tease us out of thought. He thinks that when his generation is long dead, the urn will remain telling future generations its enigmatic lesson :' beauty is truth, truth is beauty.' The speaker says that that is the only thing the urn known and the only things it heeds o know.
John Keats
About the John Keats:
In 1819, John Keats composed six odes, which are among his most famous and well-regarded poems. Keats wrote the first five poems, "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "Ode to Psyche" in quick succession during the spring, and he composed "To Autumn" in September. While the exact order in which Keats composed the poems is unknown, some critics contend that they form a thematic whole if arranged in sequence. As a whole, the odes represent Keats's attempt to create a new type of short lyrical poem, which influenced later generations.
Summery of the poem:
In the first stanza, the stanza the speaker stands before an ancient Grecian urn and addresses it. He is preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time it is the "still unravished bride of quietness", the "foster child of silence and slow time". He also describes the urn as a "historian' that can tell a story. He wonders about the figures on the side of the urn and asks what legend that depict and form where they come. He looks at a picture that seems to depict a group of men pursuing a group of woman and wonders what their story could be." what mad pursuit? what struggle to escape? what pipes and and timbrels? what wild ecstasy?"
In the second stanza the speaker looks at another picture on the urn, this time of a you young man playing a pipe, lying with his lover beneath a glade of tress. The speaker says that the piper's " unheard" melodies are sweeter than mortal melodies because they are unaffected by time. He tells they youth that through he can never kiss his lover because he is frozen in time , he should not grieve because her beauty will never saved their laves his songs will be 'for ever new' and happy that the love of the boy and the girl will last forever, unlike mortal love, which lapses in to "breathing human passion and eventually vanishes leaving behind only a "burning forehead, and a parching tongue".
In the forth stanza , the speaker examines another picture on the urn this one of a group of villagers leading a heifer to be scarified. He wonders where they are going and from where they have come. He imagines their little town, empty of all its citizens and tells it that its streets will " for evermore" be silent, for those who have left it frozen on the urn, will never return.
In the final stanza, the speaker again addresses the urn itself , saying that it like eternity, both tease us out of thought. He thinks that when his generation is long dead, the urn will remain telling future generations its enigmatic lesson :' beauty is truth, truth is beauty.' The speaker says that that is the only thing the urn known and the only things it heeds o know.
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