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 ...

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that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearièd, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! ... And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul, to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. ... with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form! ... Using paradox and oxymoron to open the second stanza, Keats praises the silent music coming from the pipes and timbrels as far more pleasing than the audible music of real life, for the music fro...

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The gloominess is continued in the following two lines where Ghalib speaks of a spring cloud thinning after a rain, and how the cloud died in its own weeping. The reader is then asked if they would question the wind's shaping and to watch mildew grow on a mirror in the spring. ... They will always exist in Spring and always be green. ... He wonders where all the religious people came from, and then wonders how the empty village will be silent and desolate forever. ...

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