When analyzing the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," I wondered what was trying to be said about the urn. The poem uses many of the elements. It uses a very formal diction, has a closed form, and it uses the images that are on the urn to describe what the urn looks like. The author, John Keats, uses form...
As for the action, the only on-stage one is confined to the silent narration, for the narrating urn is mute and silent, and from here springs the first paradox of the scene-stanza 1 the moment the curtain opens: 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 The setting, as the trend is in every scene-stanza of the play poem, comes divided into an external setting_ where the metanarrator observes the narrator in bewildered admiration, thus shedding light on the ...
The fact that Keats" has a lack of varying and more accurate words has a purpose. By stressing the word he shows that the speaker has difficulty relating to the joyful and lighthearted, and therefore cannot find more expressive words or the desire to elaborate more fully. ... He actually mentions the appeal of dying when he says, "I have been half in love with easeful Death, / Call"d him soft names in many a mused rhyme / / Now more than ever seems it rich to die" (52-55). ...
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? ... " In other words, do not try to look beyond the beauty of the urn and its images, which are representations of the eternal, for no one can see into eternity. ... The poem ends with an endorsement of these words, saying they make up the only axiom that any human being really ne...
