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PROJECT BY: HUNTER RALSTON, NICOLE SMALL, AND TAYLOR TUSO Ode
on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
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Summary The poem opens as the speaker addresses the Grecian urn
to describes and ask about the scenes on the urn. They are
described to be immortal and ever beautiful. Although they are
beautiful scenes and will never fade, they are still not alive and
cant experience the joys of life. The world that the urn depicts is
frozen and the world that surrounds it continues to prosper in
life. The confusing scene of the sacrifice reinforces that the urn
doesnt hold up to the expectations of the real world. The final
stanza displays the shift as the speaker states that beauty is
truth and truth is beauty for that is all he needs to know in order
to be successful on Earth.
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Time period and style The poem is from the romantic time
period. The style of the poem is iambic pentameter so each line
consists of ten syllables.
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Theme Eternal beauty and wisdom are often sought after although
they are not obtainable.
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Stanza I In Stanza I, Keats establishes the urn to be a wise
and ancient Sylvan historian who expresses flowery tales. The
author primarily focuses on using imagery to connote the urns
characteristics and the images it displays. Keats also directly
addresses the urn asking it rhetorical questions establishing
mystery about the urn. This mysteriousness is also seen as an
imperfect aloofness. The urn is described as haunting as the
unanswered questions about the scenes depicted still weigh on Keats
mind.
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Stanza II In Stanza II, Keats again focuses on imagery to
convey his message. Keats describes a scene of a piper playing a
love song and sees the urn to be so beautiful that the pipers song
falls on his spirit instead of his ears. However, the author
recognizes the faults of the serene setting. Though the pipers love
is forever beautiful, he will never hold her or kiss her. Forever
will the piper love her and forever will she be fair but he will
never have bliss.
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Stanza III Stanza III takes the ideas mentioned in the first
two stanzas to describe the life one the urn as one without
disappointment and suffering. The repetition of happy reinforces
that the urn has a positive lifestyle where everything remains the
same. The paintings on the urn are forever young as the world of
art is eternal. The happy methodists songs will continue forever
because the more music the more love. The speaker says love in the
real world is imperfect in contrast to the warm young love on the
urn.
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Stanza IV Stanza IV focuses on the life experiences as a
community rather than the individual life described in stanza III.
The poet portrays three possible locations that the town could
exist where the sacrifice would take place. The silent town
displays pain which relates to the pain of the lowing cow prior to
its sacrifice. Moreover, this presents a theme of pain in suffering
which contrasts the happy theme in stanza III.
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Stanza V Stanza V begins with a shift as the poem alters
towards an excited tone from the previous mellow tone. There is a
plethora of plant imagery of the urn. In stanza V, the urn is
depicted as having forest branches and trodden weed which choke the
poem with myriad vegetation. They depict the urn as being crowded
and chaotic. Stanza V utilizes diction that portrays that even
after the current generation the urn will always be around to
assist in any problems. Beauty is truth, truth beauty The two are
one in the same and go hand in hand. Truth and beauty can only be
felt and are not tangible. The urn emits these necessities.
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Essay Organization Thesis: Keats, in his Ode on a Grecian Urn
utilizes figurative language, as well as structure to create his
message that although often sought after, eternal beauty is
unobtainable. Topic Sentence: Feelings of happiness are evoked as
the poet compares aspects of life on the urn to life in reality to
convey that although beautiful the images on the urn lack life and
are empty. Through the use of imagery, Keats introduces readers to
an urn depicting scenes of love frozen in time but never blissful,
building his message of unobtainable eternal beauty. Keats
establishes a sense of chaos and complication at the end of the
poem in order to establish his message that the urn will
perpetually be around to assist generations in problems and display
that truth is beauty and beauty is truth.
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Poem Annotation
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Works Cited "625. Ode on a Grecian Urn. John Keats. The Oxford
Book of English Verse." 625. Ode on a Grecian Urn. John Keats. The
Oxford Book of English Verse. Web. 18 Jan. 2015.. "Ode on a Grecian
Urn: Analysis & Interpretation." Bright Hub Education. Web. 18
Jan. 2015..