An ode? ... His poem titled Ode on a Grecian Urn, is one that is highly respected as it does evoke deep feelings from the reader and is written with a definite distinct style. Ode on a Grecian Urn encompasses some major themes, that of death and desire, where these two themes are presented in a self-reflexive manner. ... The title itself, Ode on a Grecian Urn, simply incorporates some significant points that are relevant to the overall understanding of the idea of the self- reflexive. ... It is critical to note that without the urn the narrator would not be entitled to be self-reflexive. ...

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Ode to a Grecian Urn THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? ... "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a romantic ode, a dignified but highly lyrical (emotional) poem in which the author speaks to a person or thing absent or present. In this famous ode, Keats addresses the urn and the images on it. ... "Ode on a Grecian Urn" consists of five stanzas that pr...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the "Ode to a Grecian Urn," he uses an Urn carved with figures to convey his feelings about the topic of immortality. ... He talks about the people on the Urn as if frozen in time, never to be forgotten, "Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought." ... Another of Keats" works expresses similar feelings about immortality, as it was within a three week period that Keats wrote a series of poems including Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale. ... Ode to a Nightingale tells the tale of this small bird, who although is not immortal, will live forever with the sound of its voice. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Before moving on we might also note that by Keats's time people no longer used "thou" (or "thee," or "thy") in ordinary speech. ... We might note than in these six lines we find several repeated words: "still" (four times), "ever" (three times), "sweet" (twice). ... In his Nightingale ode, for instance, the nightingale is also a symbol of changelessness: "thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" ... In his other famous ode, the Grecian Urn is, again, a symbol of the permanence of art in a real world of change: but the art itself embodies change, and the scenes on the urn suggest a ki...

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• Grade Level: High School

The beginning of this poem is very unique but we have to note that Eliot was "the master of right beginnings" (Thompson 86). ... At this point, we have to note that, as Thompson pointed out: The "rose garden" is not the specious center that "time present" is, but the "eternal in time." ...

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• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School