That Grecian Urn

Ode On A Greek Urn is a beautiful, somewhat tragic rime written by John Keats. In this poem, he describes an urn with some(prenominal) images on it and describes the lives of the subjects from these images, as if they were living. The first of the images depicts a ag separate of hands who seem to be pursuing a group of women. He wonders who the men and women are and what their story could be. Next he sees a man and woman laying below a shoetree, the man playing some sort of pipe. He explains that sounding music is beautiful, but the music the man is playing is farthest more so, because it is silent, but will be played ever by the man. He thinks it is sad that the man will never be able to kiss the woman who is under the tree with him, but it is all right because she will continuously be young and beautiful. Next, Keats describes the boughs of the trees the man and woman lie under and his gratification that the trees will always be alive and will never shed their leaves. He describes the revel of the man and woman under the tree and believes that it is far better than being in love in real life, because he believes real love fades.
The uttermost image Keats describes is of a group of villagers coming to sacrifice a heifer. He wonders where they are going and pictures the town they come from as empty since everyone has left and is now frozen on the urn.



In closing, Keats explains that while generations of people will come and go, the urn will always live on for future generations and will send the message, steady is truth-truth, beauty, which is the most important thing to know.

Connor Weaver
January 11, 2012
ENGL-2213-03
McBride

Writing #1- Ode To A Grecian Urn
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