analysis ode to grecian urn

Name :- Gohel Ankita KishorbhaI Roll no :- 12 Paper :- 5( The Romantic Literature) Topic :- Analysis Ode to Grecian Urn. Submitted :- Department of English. Email Id :- ak.gohel4433@gmail.com Year :- 2015-2017

Ode on

A Grecian Urn

John Keats

John Keat was an english Romentic Poet.He was born in 31 Octomber 1795 in Moorgate, London.“ The Ode to Grecian Urn” was written in 1819.

A lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre. A classical poem of a kind originally meant to be sung.

What is an Ode ?

What does Keats tell us

in this poem?

1. A Work of Art is an expression of Beauty.

2. Beauty is Truth and Truth Beauty.

3. Art has an Aesthetic function.

4. Art has a moral function.5. Art provides comfort and

solace to many generations.

Keats calls the urn an “unravish’d bride of quietness” because it has existed for centuries without undergoing any changes (it is “unrevised”) as it sits quietly on a shelf or table.

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JJJJHGHGGVGHVHGVStanza 1:-Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

He also calls it a “foster-child of silence and time” because it is has been adopted by silence and time, parents who have conferred on the urn eternal stillness.

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, ,

Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, ,

In addition, Keats refers to the urn as a “sylvan historian” because it records a pastoral scene from long ago. (“Sylvan” refers to anything pertaining to woods or forests.) This scene tells a story (“legend”) in pictures framed with leaves (“leaf-fringed”)–a story that the urn tells more charmingly with its images than Keats does with his pen.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unhear’d Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Because in heard music there is no place for a flight of imagination, while in unheard music fancy gets a free play. Imagination gives an exquisite sweetness and richness which can never found in the heard music. unheard music appeals to the soul, it has spiritual, not the physical appeal.

Stanza:2

Beauty is a Truth and Truth is a Beauty. John Keat.