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A notable example is “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” in which the poet John Keats speculates on the identity of the lovers who appear to dance and play music, simultaneously frozen in time and in perpetual motion: What men or gods are these? What maidens…
- John Keats
The urn’s words do not trouble Vendler; to her, Keats...
- John Keats
The poem concludes with a now-famous aphorism: "'Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.'" Here Keats establishes an equivalence between two of the transcendental properties of being articulated by Plato: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. There is no simple summary of Keats's formulation.
Keats drew on ideas that appear in “Ode on Indolence” and developed them in “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” The poem comprises five ten-lined stanzas. The the rhyme scheme is complex, but...
About this Poem Though Charles Swinburne called Keats’s early work “some of the most vulgar and fulsome doggrel ever whimpered by a vapid and effeminate rhymester in the sickly stage of whelphood,” he later wrote that “Ode on a Grecian Urn” was one of the poems “nearest to absolute perfection, to the triumphant achievement and ...
As one of several famous lyrical odes penned by John Keats, this poem relies on imagery to bring to life the vividly dynamic world preserved by a Greek urn, its contemplations unearthing questions about life’s ephemeral nature, art’s timeless idealism, and the beauty inherent in both.
Victorian Web Home —> Some Pre-Victorian Authors —> British Romanticism —> John Keats] Thou still unravished 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 ...
2 Μαΐ 2023 · ode on a grecian urn Lemprière's classical dictionary made Keats acquainted with the names and attributes of the inhabitants of the heavens in the ancient world, and the Shakesperean Chapman introduced him to Homer, but his acquaintance with the subtlest spirit of Greece was by a more direct means.
